US HISTORY Unit 3 Week 2

Homework for the Week Monday Cornell Notes: P Tuesday Cornell Notes p Block Day Vocab Quiz on Friday Friday Read and take Cornell Notes (17.1 & 17.2)

Agenda, 10/6/2014 HOT ROC Push and pull factors for immigration Wrap-up HW: Cornell Notes: P

HOT ROC How would you define an “American”? Culture Beliefs

Immigration stories Come up to the board and mark down the boxes that correspond to your family’s stories of coming to the US. When you’re done, sit down and share more of the story with your partner. Open up textbook to p.200 to see the break down of where people have come from.

WHY (did they come?) Middle East Africa Asia & S. Pacific AustraliaEurope Central America South America Jobs (Opportunity) Political Turmoil in Native Country (Democracy) Escape/ Persecution (Liberty/Equality/ Rights) Family already in US Forced : Servitude / Indentured

U.S. Immigration:

Factors that caused Immigration Read sections 15.1 & 15.2 and complete the following T- Chart then answer the questions at the bottom. Push FactorsPull Factors Synthesis questions: Which do you think is a stronger factor in deciding to come to the US – push or pull factors? Would you have advised an immigrant who had just come to the US looking for work to join a union? Why or why not?

Agenda: Tuesday, 10/7/14 1. HOT ROC – image analysis 2. Chart and new vocab Homework: Cornell Notes: Section

How were the immigrants received in the US? On the next two slides are 2 primary source images of how people perceived the many immigrants who arrived in the US between For each image discuss: What is the artist’s view of immigrants? How do you know that? What symbolism is used? How does it connect to last night’s homework?

Partner share: How are immigrants portrayed?

Read p to better understand immigrants experiences when they came to the US. 1. Identify what helped them, what hurt them and what could be seen as either good or bad. 2. Add these terms to your glossary: assimilation, ethnicity, nativist, and race Helped immigrantsHurt immigrantsMixed

Responses to New Immigrants Supportive/Positive: Settlement Houses Negative Nativism (New Vocab) Ethnic Discrimination Ethnicity (New Vocab) Racial Discrimination Race (New Vocab) Chinese Exclusion Act Angel Island detentions Mixed Ethnic enclaves Assimilation/ Americanization (New Vocab)

Agenda: Block Day, 10/8-10/9/14 1. HOT ROC – Chinese Exclusion Act 2. Urban Living Conditions 3. Political Machines 4. Concept map HW: Keep working on concept map, begin studying for the midterm. Opportunity to participate! This Thursday at 6pm, MV City Council will be considering whether or not to raise the minimum wage from $9  $ (same as San Jose) You are allowed to attend – it’s an open meeting. Located right on Castro St.

HOT ROC: Quote Analysis “That he is …no fit competitor for an American freeman … That American men, women and children cannot be what free people should be, and compete with such degraded creatures in the labor market... the health, wealth and prosperity and happiness of our State demand their expulsion from our shores.” Source: (Lee 61-2) 1876, The Marin Journal What is the POV of the author regarding Chinese immigrants to the US? Refer to p to find out the context of this quote

Urban Living Conditions Immigrants lived in crowded and unsafe housing. Apartment buildings that were made poorly with no windows, bathrooms in the hallway, no hallway lights, etc. were called “tenement buildings”

Urban living conditions What do you notice?What questions do you have?

Political Machines Background: Needs of immigrants: jobs, $, housing, protection, etc. Political Machines & Political Bosses: Needs: votes on election day, power, & influence Relationship: Machines and Bosses would provide money, protection, food, housing, entertainment (legal and illegal), to city dwellers in return for votes Control access to jobs

Political Machines One of the ways that political machines were corrupt was that they had people vote more than once in an election. Caption: “Today’s the Big Day, Folks. Vote Early and Often.”

Tammany Hall The Politics of Fraud and Bribery Caption BOSS TWEED: “As long as I count the Votes, what are you going to do about it? Say?”

16.5 Political Machine Chart TopicDescriptionEffect on society Political Machines and Bosses Corruption in Local and State Politics Corruption on the National Level

Concept Map Create a concept map or graphic organizer that shows the relationship between the 4 main things we’ve studied so far in this unit: Inventions and Technology Captains of Industry and Monopolies Workers and Unions Immigrants Include: -Relationships between these things -Key terms and glossary words

Concept Map Monopolies Labor Immigrants inventions

Agenda: Friday 10/10 1. HOT ROC: Vocab Quiz 2. Populists

Vocab Quiz Review the following terms in your glossary: Assimilation Corporation Ethnicity Immigration Mass Production Monopoly Nativism Race Strike Vocab card quiz

Rural struggles against robber barons Populists Bank loans to buy farm equipment with high interest Monopolies on railroads that drove up shipping costs Falling crop prices ____________________ Equals = farmers with less money and more debt at the same time