1. Immigration
Chapter 13, Section 1

2. Why Come to America?
Immigrants- somebody who leaves their home country to live in another country
Key Idea: America could offer them something
they could not have access to in their home country.
**American Dream**
Economic opportunities
Job, food, modern technology, etc.
Unrest in home country
Violence, famine, religion etc.
Family already in America
“Birds of Passage”
Low cost of coming to America -> steam ship

3. Immigration by Area: Europe
million Europeans
Before 1890->West and Northern Europe
After > Central and Eastern Europe

4. Immigration by Area: Europe
Ellis Island
An immigration station in New York Harbor
Not every immigrant was admitted (disease, criminal records, money/job)
17 million immigrants passed through
Closed in 1954, now a museum

5. Ellis Island ’s

6. Ellis Island Museum: Present Day

7. How did Immigration affect the demographics in the United States?

8. Immigration by Area: Asia
about 300,000 Chinese immigrated
Gold and railroads
By 1920 more than 200,000 Japanese lived on the West Coast (California mainly)
Due to annexation of Hawaii which had many Japanese laborers b/c of Dole fruits.

9. Immigration by Area: Asia
Angel Island
An immigration station in San Francisco Bay
> 50,000 Chinese
Treatment: harsh and often detained

10. Angel Island

12. Interrogation:

13. Why did Chinese immigrants come to the United States?

14. A Day in the Life of a New Immigrant:
Imagine you go to a foreign country and have to provide for the following on your own!
Language barrier
Living arrangements
Jobs/money
Food, clothing, basic items

15. Idea of Nativism
Nativists- supported American born people, mainly against immigrants
believed that immigrants brought European radicalism with them to America
blamed the newcomers for instigating the labor unrest that characterized much of the period.
Immigrants hold on to beliefs/customs. Against idea of melting pot
Social Darwinism with races
Eugenics: Europeans the greatest race

16. Nativist Groups: American Protective Association (APA)
1887: papal conspiracy against liberty
Against Roman Catholics (mainly those coming from Eastern and Central Europe)
Immigration Restriction League
1894: America should be populated with people of Germanic origins because of their energy and intelligence.
Organized by Harvard graduates

17. Restrictions on Immigration:
Chinese Exclusion Act: 1882
Resulted from many workers and labor unions in the west concerned about job competition
Banned all Chinese immigrants except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials
Lasted till 1943
Gentlemen’s Agreement: 1907
Prior to agreement Japanese children were being forced to attend segregated school in San Francisco
Limited emigration of Japanese unskilled workers to US in exchange for repeal of segregation in schools.

18. Why did the Federal Government pass the Chinese Exclusion Act?

19. Reasons Nativists Opposed Immigration
Complete the graphic organizer by listing the reasons nativists opposed immigration to the United States?
Reasons Nativists Opposed Immigration