2. Old Immigrants
From
From Europe: English, Scottish, Irish. Dutch, Germans, and more.

3. WHY?
Escape from oppression
Freedom of religion
To have a better life

4. Post Civil War- Gilded Age
New Immigrants
Post Civil War- Gilded Age
From Europe and Asia: Italy, Russia, Greece, Japan, and China.

5. WHY?- Same Reasons Escape oppression “Rags to Riches” American Dream
To get a good job

7. “Give me your poor huddled masses yearning to breath free.”
Push Immigration
Pull Immigration
Escape War
Escape Persecution (Russian Jews escaping the Pogroms)
Famine and Disease (Irish Potato Famine)
Democracy
Religious Freedom
Economic Opportunity
Free Land (The Homestead Act)

8. Life style after Immigration

9. Immigration Challenges
Finding a place to live- tenement houses in ghettoes
Assimilation- language, customs
Finding a job- low wages, sweatshops
Nativism

10. Initial Immigration Restrictions
Immigration Restriction League
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Gentlemen’s Agreement - Japan (1907)
Literacy Tests (1917)

11. 1920s Government Immigration Restrictions
Emergency Quota Act- 1921(3% of 1910 #s)
National Origins Act (2% of 1890 #s)
National Origins Act- 1929(made 1924 permanent and banned Asian Immigration)

12. Rate of immigration

13. From 1990-2018 Modern Immigrants
From Asia and Latin America: Mexico, Philippines, Vietnam, Korea, Syria, and more.

14. WHY?- Similar Reasons Better educational opportunities
Family reuniting
Escape conflicts in their own countries

15. IMPACT Transformed America
The ethnic diversity changed America to a more multi-cultural society
Cultural contributions are that it can be seen in art, food, music and culture of modern America

16. A Border Wall with Mexico
Are recent immigration policy suggestions “American”?
A Border Wall with Mexico
Travel ban from seven predominantly Muslim Nations

17. Dream Act Is Approved in N. Y
Dream Act Is Approved in N.Y. to Aid Undocumented Students, in Rebuke to Trump