The New Immigrants Essential Question: How did “new” immigrants impact American society in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

Immigrants From southern/eastern Europe (Greece, Poland, Russia and Hungary) Unskilled and poor Catholic and Jewish Planned on going home

Why Leave Home? Push factors war Famine Persecution Pull factors Economic opportunity Cheap land in west Gold Religious freedom Joining family or friends

Immigrant Experience Pack what you need Voyage across the ocean in steerage Inspection upon arrival Ellis Island (NY) for Europeans Angel Island (CA) for Asians If found to be unfit, sent to hospital and shipped back home

Immigrant Assimilation Stayed in cities Worked industrial jobs Lived in ghettos with people in ethnic neighborhoods Started shops and restaurants centered around homeland Programs to help immigrants with dress, language and diet Segregated themselves through clubs, churches and schools

Hostility towards Immigrants Nativists resentment Used stereotypes to degrade and deem them inferior Took jobs Religious disputes Congress passes Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)—limits Chinese American civil rights and prohibits laborers Congress passes laws to keep out physically and mentally disabled

Impact of Immigrants More culture Built RRs Worked in factories Mostly Chinese in west Worked in factories Became voices in labor unions Fueled economy as cheap labor

“Keeping Foreigners Out”

“Crossing the Border”

Target Goals Create an advertisement on the reasons immigrants came to the US. In a paragraph, write your own perception comparing immigration at the turn of the century and today based off of the political cartoons done in class.