1. Oct 1 Literacy Target: I can expand and connect text to self, community and world. Learning Target: ◦ I can understand the responses of non- immigrants to immigration from 1880-1920. Opener: ◦ Predict how non-immigrants in the United States reacted to the wave of immigration from 1880-1920. (Write down your prediction in complete sentences.)

2. American Responses to Immigration Progressive Reform Nativism

3. What is Reform? To make changes to something to improve it

4. What is Nativism? Fear, mistrust and opposition to immigration and immigrants by the native- born inhabitants of a country or region

5. Nativism in the U.S. Know-Nothing Party ◦ 1845-1860 ◦ Opposed immigration, especially by Irish and German Catholics

6. Nativism in the U.S. American Protective Association ◦ 1887-1895 ◦ Anti-Catholic, focused on Italian immigrants

7. Nativism in the U.S. Immigration Restriction League ◦ 1894-1921 ◦ Opposed to all immigration, especially from Eastern Europe

8. Nativism in the U.S. West Coast labor unions ◦ Labor unions began to emerge around the country during the Gilded Age ◦ On the West Coast, many of these unions were strongly anti- Chinese

9. Effects of Nativism Riots and Massacres ◦ 1844: Anti-Irish riot in Philadelphia ◦ 1855: 22 Irish and German immigrants killed in Louisville, Kentucky ◦ 1871: 18 Chinese immigrants killed in Los Angeles ◦ 1887: 31 Chinese miners killed in Oregon

10. Effects of Nativism Anti-Immigration Laws ◦ Bennet Law of 1890: Prohibited teaching German language in schools in Wisconsin ◦ Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Suspended Chinese immigration ◦ Literacy tests: Passed by Congress but vetoed by presidents

11. Effects of Nativism Boycotts ◦ Business refused to hire immigrants ◦ People refused to buy goods from immigrants

12. Reasons for Nativism

13. AVMS- COPY this down Author ◦ Who were they? ◦ Not just their name but an explanation! Voice ◦ Emotion or point of view in the document Main Idea ◦ What are they trying to say? Why? Significance ◦ Why does their main idea matter?

14. Closure Do you think nativism is still around in the U.S.? Why or why not? Complete your self-evaluation