Alamance-Burlington School System
|Why Leave Home? |
|Push Factors |Pull Factors |
|Things happening at home that are |Things ______________ immigrants to |
|_______ |America |
|Famine |Plentiful land and employment |
|_______ crop prices |“The American Dream” |
|Religious persecution |Meet up with other family members |
| |Political and religious freedom |
|Problems with Urbanization |
|dumbbell tenements |
|overcrowding |
|no windows, no ventilation |
|crime |
|fire |
|sanitation |
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Immigration and Urbanization
The Duggan Family, Irish Immigrants
Italian Immigrant Family
Why did we come?
• to ________________, to stay
Why did we come?
• Birds of Passage: _________ enough then go back home
What were our abilities?
• had ____________, were skilled and educated
What were our abilities?
• no ____________
• no skills
Where are we from?
What’s our religion?
“Old Immigrants”
“New Immigrants”
The Journey
• brought what could be carried… looked ______________
• ship was crowded and _____________
Processing
• medical inspections
• legal inspections
• few turned away
• end of road for others
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Angel Island
• California
• ___________ immigrants
• Tough inspections
Ellis Island
• New ________
• European Immigrants
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Life in America
- Took jobs in factories, _________________________ ( provided cheap labor
- Settlement Houses established to help immigrants get “Americanized” _______________________________
o learn English
o American dress, diet, _____________________
o Jane Addams’ Hull House
- Amusement Parks and Spectator Sports
o Coney Island (roller coasters)
o Baseball, football, boxing, horse racing
- Ethnic Neighborhoods
o Little Italy
o
Hostility
- Nativism: belief that _____________ born Americans were superior to immigrants
o fueled by __________ and housing competition
o also religious and _____________ differences
- Chinese Exclusion Act
1. stops ________________________ of Chinese labor
2. limited rights of ________________ in America
3. no citizenship
4. 1st time immigration restricted
5.
Urbanization
• America experienced a dramatic growth in cities and people living in them
• Occurred in the Midwest along __________________, the Northeast and the Pacific Coast
• Jobs would be found as well as forms of entertainment and _______________________________
• Cities were more glamorous than rural areas
MIGRATION
• African Americans leave the _______________________, moved North and West (Great Migration)
• many farmers move to cities
• _______________________ created on outskirts of cities
Technologies Improve Cities
- Frederick Law Olmstead
o
- Architecture
o
- Mass Transit
o electric _________________
o subways
o mainly used by upper & middle class that lived in suburbs & could afford fares
• Protestants
• northern & western Europe (Irish & Germans)
• Catholics & Jews
• southern & eastern Europe (Italy, Greece, Poland, Hungary, Russia)
o Chinatown
Attempts to Solve the Problems
- Jacob Riis wrote “How the Other Half Lives,” documents the _____________ conditions
- Gospel of Wealth written by Andrew Carnegie – the wealthy should be __________________________ (philanthropists)
o
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