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U.S. II4b
Immigration Anticipation Guide U.S. II 4b
Directions: Before watching the video, make some predictions about immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Put a ☺next to the ones you see in the video.
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U.S. II4b
Reasons People Immigrated to the U.S. Post
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Push and Pull Factors of Immigration
Push Factors Pull Factors
Push Factors are ________________________________________
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Pull Factors are _________________________________________
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▪ Two distinct waves of immigrants came to this country during the 1800’s.
▪ The first wave or Old Immigrants were mostly Christian Protestants from Northern and Southern Europe.
▪ Old Immigrants mostly had been farmers living in poverty and famine.
▪ Old Immigrants stopped coming when the economies in Europe improves in 1890.
▪ The new wave of immigrants was mostly from Southern and Eastern Europe, including Italy, Poland, and Russia.
▪ The number of New Immigrants were twice as large as that of Old Immigrants.
▪ Two million New Immigrants came to this country in 10 years.
▪ New Immigrants also came because their countries relaxed their emigration laws.
▪ New Immigrants were able to come on steam boats that traveled nonstop from Europe into the U.S. It was cheaper to travel.
▪ New Immigrants also sent letters of hope back home.
▪ New Immigrants had been fleeing religious persecution and even ethnic cleansing genocide (the deliberate killing of an entire racial or cultural group).
▪ New Immigrants also went to Canada and Argentina, but over 60% of them came to the U.S.
▪ Both the New and Old Immigrants felt anxiety and feared leaving for an unknown place.
▪ Immigrants would be given medical examinations and asked questions.
▪ Immigrants with contagious diseases were often deported or sent back to their counties of origin.
▪ Immigrants mostly stayed in cities.
▪ New Immigrants found jobs in cities as most of the land in the West had been claimed.
▪ Without immigrant labor, the Industrial Revolution would not have occurred!
OPEN COMPARE AND CONTRAST
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Assimilation Activity: U.S.II 4 B
What is Assimilation?
How does the first picture show assimilation?
How does the second picture show assimilation?
How does the second picture show non-assimilation?
What are other forms of assimilation or ways to fit in??
Draw your own Picture of Assimilation
U.S.II 4 B Immigrants' Experiences Worksheet Lab #2
Name_______________________________
This activity will help you think about what life was like in a tenement house.
Immigrant Families
Go to the website: Audio Tour Does not WORK!
• Read the introduction about Lukas Glockner then enter the building where it says enter here with the pointing hand. Read Hallway/Ruin information.
• Find where it says Previous apartment and Next apartment.
• Read about a family from the 1870’s, draw a picture of their life in the big box, their name in the small box and 3 details about their life in the medium box.
• Read about a family from the 1900’s, draw a picture of their life in the big box, their name in the small box and 3 details about their life in the medium box.
2. Continue looking at the Urban Log and
2. Continue looking at the Link and answer.
▪ What countries did the immigrant families come from?
▪ What jobs did the immigrant families have?
▪ What problems did they face?
▪ What are two differences between the 1870’s and 1900’s families at the same address?
3. Go to and follow the directions
for making your immigrant life. Explore!!!
Sorry, not sound or Video, but you can visit at home.
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Template © 2003 Edwin Ellis,
Teacher’s Copy
Is about…
So what? What is important to understand about this?
Political bosses took advantage of immigrants who faced horrible living conditions and discrimination, but others worked to help people who were suffering.
Movement spreads
Jane Addams and the Hull House “Community Center”
Organizations gave help Salvation Army
YMCA
YWCA
Upper classes helping the poor
Settlement Houses
Life After the Civil War
Previous Unit
Rise of Big Business
Next Unit
Progressive Movement
SELF-TEST QUESTIONS:
1. Why did cities develop?
2. Why did immigration increase?
3. What challenges faced Americans as a result of the growth of cites and the increase of immigrants?
4.
Urban Growth
TERMS, PEOPLE AND PLACES
|Addams, Jane |immigration |Settlement House |
|Tweed, Boss |industrialization |social change |
|conflict |oppressive government |specialized industry |
|ghetto |political corruption |tenement |
|Hull House |political machine |urban |
| |rural |urbanization |
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is about
the reasons for the expansion of cities and the resulting problems and their solutions.
II. Developing Cities
• Reasons for growth
1. Specialized industries
2. Immigration
3. Shift from rural to urban areas for jobs
• Challenges faced by cities
1. Rapid industrialization
2. Tenements and ghettos
3. Political corruption
I. Increased Immigration
• Reasons for the increase
1. Better opportunities
2. Religious freedom
3. Escape from Oppressive governments
• Diverse cultural groups
1. Chinese
2. Irish
3. Southern & Eastern Europe
• Push/Pull factors
III. Efforts to Solve Immigration
Problems
• Settlement Houses
1. Jane Addams’s Hull House
2. Provided numerous services
• Political machines
1. Attended to the needs of immigrants
2. Gained power by providing jobs and housing
beginning with
resulting in
Adapted from The Unit Organizer Routine. Copyright Lenz, 1994.
SOL USII.4b
leading to
Political Bosses ran the slums
Poor sanitation, crime, and pollution
Ethnic neighborhoods
Unsafe tenements and ghettos
Slum Dwellers
Example: Boss Tweed of New York
Corruption and bribery
Popular with the poor
Political boss charge of part or all of the city
Political Machines
Helped Improve Living Conditons for Immigrants and people living in the cities.
Teacher’s Copy
Religious persecution
LIFESTYLE / SAFETY FACTORS
Escape from oppressive governments (political freedom)
POLITICAL FACTORS
Famine
Lack of jobs
ECONOMIC FACTORS
People want to LEAVE this place
Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe and Asia (NEW)
PUSH
OUT
Immigration in the late 1800s and early 1900s (OLD)
Point in Time
During the 1800s, the population of the United States grew because of an increase in immigration. People came to the United States looking for better opportunities, freedom from oppression, and adventure.
Similar HOW?
Different HOW?
So What? What can you conclude about this place at this point in time?
MARK BIG IDEA: Every place has features that PULL (attract) people to move there and factors that PUSH them out (make them want to leave)
Template © 2003 Edwin Ellis
…and MOVE TO this place
United States
Freedom of religion
Better quality of life
Opportunity and adventure
LIFESTYLE / SAFETY FACTORS
Basic individual freedoms
POLITICAL FACTORS
Inexpensive land
Hope for better opportunities
ECONOMIC FACTORS
PULL
TO
Template © 2003 Edwin Ellis,
The rise of industrialism and the creation of big cities
City life was exciting with new inventions and activities, including electricity and the telephone.
Construction of tenement housing allowed more people to live in smaller areas.
There was a high demand for factory labor, e.g., steel mills, meatpacking plants, garment factories.
Farmers and African Americans moved to cities for opportunities
Most of the land was already divided among people in the West, so there was little opportunity for new immigrants.
African Americans sought a better life than in the rural South.
Farmers looked for a better life from the harsh weather and poor soil in the West.
Cause …
Cause …
Immigration increased
They came in hopes of a better life: 1. religious freedom, 2. escape from oppressive governments, and 3. adventure.
Northern European immigrants decreased. Southern and Eastern European, Asian, and Latin American immigrants increased.
Factory owners took advantage of the cheap labor
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Poor working conditions
From 1866 to 1915, over 25 million immigrants migrated to the United States.
Conclusion: ????
Cause …
Teacher’s Copy
II. Cities Expand
Anti-immigrant feeling
Immigrant Discrimination
how political leaders and reformers tried to solve the many problems endured by immigrants.
III. Effects of Immigration
Lab #1 Go to American Memory Immigration website:
Academic pick 1
Honors pick 2 one old, one new
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187_____
Look in “Searching for the Gold Mountain” and “Growth and Inclusion:
Major dates of immigration:
Answer: Where did Chinese Immigrant live in the U.S.?
Look at “Intolerance”, “Legislative Harassment” and “Exclusion” Link
Answer: Give an example of discrimination they faced?
Answer: What did Chinese Immigrants add to our culture?
Look at “A New Community” Link
Also, Look at “Potluck at top of web page.
Look at “Building Communities” Link or click on globle
Chinese
Immigrants
“New”
2 Key pts from 1st page
1.
2.
Click on the people to the left: Find Chinese Immigrants. Read the first page. Then look at the bottom of the page for links
Look at “Building Institutions, Shaping Taste” Link
Also, Look at “Potluck at top of web page.
Look at “Filling the Nation’s Breadbasket” Link or click on globe
answer
German
Immigrants
“Old”
Look at “Shadows of War” Link
Look in “Surge”:
Major dates of immigration:
Answer: What did German Immigrants add to our culture?
Answer: Where did German Immigrants live in the U.S.?
Answer: Give an example of discrimination they faced?
Click on the people to the left: Find German Immigrants. Read the first page. Then look at the bottom of the page for links
2 Key pts from 1st page
1.
2.
Look at “Century Spotlight” Link
Also, Look at “Potluck” at top of web page.
Look at “City of Villages” Link or click on globle
Italian
Immigrants
“New”
Look at “Great Arrival”
Major dates of immigration:
Answer: What did Italian Immigrants add to our culture?
Look at “Tenements and Toil”, “Working Across the Nation” and “Under Attack” Link
Answer: Give an example of problems they faced?
Answer: Where did Italian Immigrants live in the U.S.?
HOW DIFFERENT?
Activity: Color
North/West
South/East
Click on the people to the left: Find Italian Immigrants. Read the first page. Then look at the bottom of the page for links
HOW ALIKE?
2 Key pts from 1st page
1.
2.
WITH REGARD TO
Look at “Cultural Renaissance” Link
Also, Look at “Potluck” at top of web page.
Look at “Lower East Side” Link or click on globle
Polish/Russian
Immigrants
“New”
Answer: Where did Polish/Russian Immigrants live in the U.S.?
Look at “People at Risk”
Major dates of immigration:
Answer: What did Polish and Russian Immigrants add to our culture?
Look at “Soviet Exiles” Link
Answer: Give an example of problems they faced?
Click on the people to the left: Find Polish/Russian Immigrants. Read the first page. Then look at the bottom of the page for links
2 Key pts from 1st page
1.
2.
Look at “Contributions to” and “Irish Identity” Link
Also, Look at “Potluck” at top of web page.
Look at “Colonial Immigration” Link or click on globe
Irish
Immigrants “Old”
Look at “Adaptation and Assimilation” and “Racial Tension” Link
Look at “Irish Catholic Immigration”:
Major dates of immigration:
Answer: What did Irish Immigrants add to our culture?
Answer: Give an example of problems they faced?
Answer: Where did Irish Immigrants live in the U.S.?
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