1. Immigration The Story of ALL of us!

2. United States 1860 Population: 31.5 million
Before 1855 no immigrant processing center
immigrants: 30 million -

3. European Groups
Early immigration from Northern & Western Europe (mostly Protestants)
Later immigration (1890’s) - Southern & Eastern Europe (mostly Catholics or Jews)

4. Changes in Emigration to America

5. Steerage

6. Registry Room-Ellis Island

7. Angel Island
Men would send pictures to Japan & then a marriage would be arranged. In Japan marriage done; US must have ceremony

9. Challenges of Urbanization
Urbanization: growth of cities, mostly in the regions of the Northeast and Midwest
Ghettos: sections of cities in which certain ethnic or racial groups lived
Tenements: multifamily urban dwellings that were often times overcrowded and unsanitary
Mass Transit: transportation system designed to move large numbers along fixed routes
Social Gospel Movement: preached salvation through service to the poor
Establishment of settlement houses

10. Reaction to Immigration
Nativism: overt favoritism toward native-board Americans
Exclusion Act: passed for 10 year span ending immigration from Chinese; punishment to ship owners who brought in immigrants; made permanent in 1902 and exists until 1943