1. Immigration
Ch. 5 Sec. 1

2. Push/Pull Factors Push factors- compel people to leave homeland
Civil war and political revolution at home
Religious Oppression
Poor economic prospects
Pull factors- draw people to a new place
Promise of political & religious freedom
Promise of industrial jobs & cheap land

3. Old/New Immigrants Old immigrants New immigrants Protestant
Northern/western Europe
Families
Skilled labor
Often farmers
Often educated
New immigrants
Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish
Southern/Eastern Europe or Asia
Often individuals
Unskilled labor

6. In what year was immigration from the Americas the highest?
During which decade did immigration from Northern and Western Europe decrease the most?
During which period did immigration from the Americas basically stop?
Describe the trend in immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe from 1870 to 1910.

7. Immigrants to the US, by Major Occupation Group 1865-1895

8. Ellis Island Immigrants arrive at Ellis Island
Immigrants detained at Ellis Island
Passing the medical exam
Registering as an American citizen
Ellis Island Deconstructed

9. Immigrants in "pens" at Ellis Island, waiting for testing for physical and mental defects. Though the iron bars were designed to create orderly movement of large numbers of persons, immigrants feared them as prisons. Underwood and Underwood photo, probably around 1905.

10. Adjusting to America Challenges Solutions Language barrier
Finding a job
Anti-immigrant sentiment
Ethnic tension
Solutions
Immigrant aid societies
Ethnic neighborhoods
education

11. Nativism Nativism: anti-immigrant sentiment
Americanization – assimilating immigrants into American society to make them more loyal citizens.
“melting pot”
Schools and education
Settlement houses
Immigration Restrictions?

12. Map about immigration c. 1860

13. Looking Backward. They would close the bridge that carried them and their fathers.