1. Do NOW
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
Who could this be talking about?
What could someone who is tired and poor find in America?

3. Reasons for Immigration
1. Hope for better opportunities

4. Reasons for Immigration
2. Religious freedom

5. Reasons for Immigration
3. Escape from oppressive governments (unfair)

6. Reasons for Immigration
4. Desire for adventure.

7. Challenges Faced by Cities Due to Immigration:
Tenements and Ghettos (overcrowded housing)

8. Challenges Faced by Cities Due to Immigration:
Political corruption (political machines)

9. Efforts to solve immigration problems
1. Settlement houses, such as Hull House founded by Jane Addams

10. Efforts to solve immigration problems
Political machines that gained power by attending to the needs of new immigrants (e.g., jobs, housing) in exchange for votes and favors

11. Irish and Chinese Immigrants face discrimination

12. Population changes, growth of cities, and new inventions produced interaction and often conflict between different cultural groups.

13. Immigration to the USA 1865 to 1900
Rapid industrialization (use of machines) and urbanization (growth of cities) led to overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods and tenements.