Transcript Using the blank map and your textbook page 255

Immigration and American History
• By the end of this unit you will understand:
• 1. How and in what ways immigrants
shaped the United States in the late 1800s
and early 1900s
• Why and how immigrants came to the United
States
• What the voyage to the US was like
• What life was like for immigrants in the US
Immigration and American History
• Where did Immigrants Come from 1860 to
1920?
• Using the blank map and your textbook page
255, complete the map activity
Immigration and American History
• Most immigrants at this time came from
Europe
• Germany, Ireland, Scandinavia, England,
Russia, Italy, Eastern Europe
• Some came from China and Japan
• Between 1870-1920 20 million Europeans
came to the US
• About 300,000 Chines arrived in the late
1800s
Immigration and American History
• Why did immigrants want to come to the US?
• Push Factors: Poverty, war, famine, land
shortages, religious persecution
• Pull factors: “American Dream”, economic
opportunity, political freedom, religious
freedom
Immigration and American History
• Voyage to the United States
• About 1 week on a steamship, bad conditions,
people traveled steerage class
• People got sick and were often kept below
deck
• Please read The Difficulties of Immigration
by G. Mittelberger and answer the questions
at the end
Immigration and American History
• What was life like for immigrants in the
Untied States?
• Usually in Cities
• Poorer neighborhoods, tenements
• Please read the excerpt: Life in New York
Tenement Houses by W. Esling and answer
the questions at the end of the reading
• What seemed to be typical conditions that
immigrants faced in the US?
Immigration and American History
• Reactions to Immigration
• Reaction to the influx of immigrants was often
positive and negative
• Anti-immigration groups developed.
• They also cited fear of a loss of jobs, or that
immigrants were changing the social/moral
fabric of American society
Immigration and American History
• Nativism: favoring native born Americans
• Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
• Literacy Tests for immigrants