Ms. Gerloski Unit 1 – Immigration and Child Labor

  A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country What is an immigrant?

  Imagine you are an immigrant who is about to come to America. You are about to leave your country, possibly forever, and you must decide what items you will take to your new home. What would you want to bring? Think about it…

  Immigrants traveling to America were only allowed to bring what they could carry. Remember, this was a time before comfy backpacks and rolling suitcases! Often times, immigrants had to bring their most precious belongings in broken suitcases, baskets, leather sacks and even cardboard boxes.  Look back at your list. Can you carry everything you wrote down? Considering how small your suitcase would be, choose only four items that you would take to America. Now what?

  Definition: Negative aspect that motivates someone to leave their home country  Unemployment  Lack of safety  Poverty  Poor weather (droughts, etc)  War, civil unrest Push Factors

  Definition: An aspect that attracts people to go and move to a particular place  Jobs  Safety  Better land/weather  Political stability/Peace  Friends and family  Basics (Food, shelter) Pull Factors

  Harsh winter weather  PUSH QUIZ! Push or Pull?

  Abundance of jobs  PULL Push or Pull

  Lack of fresh water  PUSH Push or Pull?

  Political persecution  PUSH Push or Pull?

  More security  PULL Push or Pull?

  Drought  PUSH Push or Pull

  Stable government  PULL Push or Pull

  Write the numbers 1-8 on your paper.  Look at all 8 of your vocabulary terms.  Write a sentence that uses each of your vocabulary terms– appropriately! Vocabulary word recap

 “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” The New Colossus

  Came to U.S. for a variety of reasons (political, religious, freedom, opportunities)  Most immigrants from Europe  Wealthy immigrated and purchased land  Poorer immigrants stayed in larger cities  WHY? European Immigration

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 Ireland 962,000 Germany 1,967,000 Germany 2,663,000 Italy 1,790,000 Italy 1,257, Germany 584,000 Ireland 1,855,000 Ireland 1,615,000 Germany 1,609,000 Germany 990, Great Britain 379,000 Great Britain 918,000 Canada 1,180,000 United Kingdom 1,403,000 Canada 953, Canada 148,000 Canada 717,000 Great Britain 1,168,000 Canada 1,310,000 United Kingdom 833, France 54,000 Sweden 194,000 Sweden 582,000 Poland 1,269,000 Poland 748, Switzerland 13,000 Norway 182,000 Italy 484,000 Soviet Union 1,154,000 Soviet Union 691, Mexico 13,000 France 107,000 Russia 424,000 Ireland 745,000 Mexico 576, Norway 13,000 China 104,000 Poland 383,000 Mexico 641,000 Ireland 339, Holland 10,000 Switzerland 89,000 Norway 336,000 Sweden 595,000 Austria 305, Italy 4,000 Bohemia 85,000 Austria 276,000 Czechoslovakia 492,000 Hungary 245,000 # of Immigrants from each country by decade (Top 10)

  According to Chart A, which country had the most immigrants in the US?  How many total immigrants came from that country from #1

  According to Chart B, which industry had the lowest percentage of immigrant workers?  Which three industries had the most immigrant workers? #2

  According to most Chart C, which group had the most immigrants in Milwaukee?  What percentage of foreign born Milwaukeeans are German? #3

  In what regions of the United States did many foreign born people settle, according to Chart C? #4

  According to Chart D, does Milwaukee have a greater than 10 % foreign population? #5

  Which chart tells us the distribution of foreign-born settlement in the United States? #6

  Which chart tells us about the demographics of immigrants in Milwaukee? #7

  Which chart is dated 1860? #8

  Civil War, laws to help industry grow  Government aided building of railroads  Two main companies worked on “Transcontinental Railroad”  May, 1869: Transcontinental Railroad completed Railroads & Immigration

  Transcontinental railroad required hundreds of thousands of laborers to complete  In the west, most of the people who built the railroads were Chinese. Why?  Video Clip: Railroads & Immigration

  Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882  Federal law that prohibited immigration of ALL Chinese laborers  First federal act to prohibit a certain ethnic group from immigrating to the U.S.  Excluded Chinese already in the U.S. from becoming citizens  Repealed in 1943 – more than 50 years later Chinese Exclusion

  Video Clip E Video Clip E Chinese Exclusion Act

  41 Million = foreign born population  ~20 of immigrants live in poverty (same as native born americans)  ~11 Million undocumented immigrants  20% of undocumented adults have a spouse or family who is “legal”  Latino Population makes up about 17% of total US population The Numbers

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