1.  Answer on your warm up/exit ticket sheet:  What would make you want to move to another country? Where would you want to go?

2. Today’s LEQ: What factors influenced European immigration and settlement?

3. Some immigrants came from Asia, Mexico & Canada, but most came from Europe 1 st WAVE: 1840s-1890s, Europeans came from northern & western Europe  Irish, British, German, Scandinavian 2 nd WAVE: Late 1800s-1900s, more Europeans began coming from southern & eastern Europe  Italians, Greeks, Hungarians, Poles, Russians

4.  Push Factors  Difficulties in Europe  Population Growth  Lack of Jobs  Crop Failures  Lack of Arable Land (suitable for growing crops)

5.  Hunger  Pogroms – organized persecution or extermination of an ethnic group ▪ Russian & Polish Jews

6. Pull Factors  Opportunities in the U.S.  Life in a Free & Democratic Society  Achieve their Dreams  Natural Resources  Farmland, Minerals, Forests  Jobs  “America Letters” – letters from family members who had already emigrated

7.  After the Civil War, the steamship replaced the sailing ship  2 weeks versus 3 months  Some passengers could afford cabins, but most had to settle for steerage

8.  Steerage – area below the main deck ▪ Seasickness, spoiled food, filthy conditions ▪ During the day, huddled on the deck for fresh air

9. Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon- hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame, "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Emma Lazarus, New York City, 1883

12. Registration Medical Inspections – “Six-second Exam”  Physical & Eye Exam  Some pulled aside for a closer inspection  L – Lameness  H – Heart Condition  X – Mental Problem  E – Eye Condition  Detained or Deported  Hitch Video Clip