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

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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

13. “Keeping Foreigners Out”

14. “Crossing the Border”

15. 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.