1. Chapter 6 Urban America
6.1 Immigration

2. Europeans Flood into America
Immigrant- one who enters and becomes established in a country other than that of his or her original nationality.

3. Immigration Push Factors (reasons to leave)
Pull Factors (reason for coming to America)
Farm poverty and work uncertainty
War and military service
Political tyranny
Religious oppression
Population pressure
Plenty of land of work
Higher standard of living
Democratic political system
Opportunity for social advancement

4. My family

5. Immigration Old immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe
England, France, Ireland, and Germany
New immigrants came from Southern and Eastern Europe
Italy, Poland, Russia, Greece

6. Ellis Island Ellis Island was used for medical examination
It was a 3 story building, crowded, and loud
Immigrants would be deported for eye disease, other diseases, and not having any money

7. Ethnic Neighborhoods
Immigrants lived in neighborhoods with people from the same country
Common language
Customs
Religion
News paper from home land

8. Chinese Come to America
Angel Island on the Westcoast
Why?
Jobs?
Famine
Land shortage for peasants
Civil war in Taiping
Railroads
Construction workers
Some skilled labor
Merchants and small business

9. Nativism Is an extreme dislike for immigrants from native born people
It started because of the fear of catholic moving into protestant areas
immigrants would take jobs from natives because they would work for less money
and would accept jobs as strikebreakers

10. Chinese immigration
California did not treat the Chinese or Asian immigrants well
forced Koreans, Japanese, and Chinese to segregated schools
Passed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Law barred Chinese immigrants for 10 years and stopped Chinese immigrants from gaining citizenship

11. Theodore Roosevelt Made a deal known as the “Gentlemen's Agreement”
Japan would limit immigration if schools would stop segregation