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Reform Immigrants & Progressives

Reform Immigrants & Progressives. 5.1.2 Transportation/Communication 5.6.1 contributors to TN & Amer. society 5.4.3 Amendment 19 5.5.5 life before WWII. Immigrants. Why did people want to move to the US? Read pgs. 206-207 & 210-211 in text Watch Ellis Island video. Ellis Island.

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Reform Immigrants & Progressives

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  1. Reform Immigrants & Progressives 5.1.2 Transportation/Communication 5.6.1 contributors to TN & Amer. society 5.4.3 Amendment 19 5.5.5 life before WWII

  2. Immigrants • Why did people want to move to the US? • Read pgs. 206-207 & 210-211 in text • Watch Ellis Island video

  3. Ellis Island New arrivals were taken by ferry to the main building at Ellis Island. Opened in 1892, the first immigrant to arrive was a 15-year-old girl from Ireland named Annie Moore to join her parents in New York City.

  4. What happened once they arrived? • Read pgs. 208-209 • Visit NY Tenement-click on urban log cabin and check out rooms

  5. Immigration • Why immigrants came: jobs, freedom, escape persecution, make a better life • Problems they faced: low pay, tenements, prejudice • Work they did: factory, mine, and railroad work Copy in journal

  6. Urbanization • Why were cities growing rapidly? • Read text pgs. 212-213, 215 Hull House-wiki Notes-next slide

  7. Urbanization • Why did cities grow? • Factories needed workers • New technology built skyscrapers and used electricity • New immigrants • Who helped? • Jane Addams formed 1st settlement house in Chicago called Hull House. Copy into journal

  8. Progressives/Reformerstext pgs.216-219 • Pres. Theodore Roosevelt-passed laws to make food safer and set up national parks • Gov. Austin Peay of TN-created TN state parks, improved roads, healthcare, and education • Anne Dallas Dudley-suffragist from TN who urged TN to approve Amendment 19, women’s right to vote Copy into journal

  9. Suffrage-brainpop Suffrage parade

  10. Reforming Racial Equality • W.E.B. DuBois-African Amer. writer and professor who led the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) • Booker T. Washington-Afr. Amer. who started Tuskegee Institute in AL to educate southern Afr. Amer. Copy into journal

  11. Academic Vocabulary 16. Labor Union-a worker’s organization that tries to improve working conditions such as pay 17. Immigrant-a person who moves from their birth country to another country 18. Urbanization= the growth of cities 19. Industrialization= the growth of industry 20. Migration-a group of people moving from one area to another often over long distances 21. Settlement House-a community center for people in cities 22.Suffrage-right to vote 15. annex-to add or attach

  12. Review for Ch. 5 & 6 • Lined paper-number 1-15. • Round the classroom review

  13. People Booker T. Washington= African American leader who started a school to educate African Amer. In AL called Tuskegee Institute. George Washington Carver= Former slave who was a teacher at Tuskegee Institute. Improved lives of poor southern farmers and developed 300 peanut products. Samuel Gompers= 1st President of AFL (Amer. Federation of Labor), a labor union, that wanted to improve their working conditions and pay Entrepreneurs- Carnegie/Rockefellar= Businessmen who earned large profits for their companies. Andrew Carnegie= steel (railroad) / John D. Rockefeller=oil

  14. People…continued Jane Addams= founded Hull House, 1st settlement house in Chicago, which provided services to people in need (mostly immigrants) Anne Dallas Dudley= Suffragist from TN who gave speeches and wrote letters to lawmakers about giving women right to vote W.E.B. Du Bois= Leader of NAACP; African American writer and teacher to help people see laws should be changed. Gov. Austin Peay= Gov. of TN in early 1900s wanted to protect wilderness. He set up land for Great Smoky Mtns. National Park

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