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The New Immigrants

The New Immigrants. Ellis Island and Angel Island. What are the basic reasons for immigration?. Migration. The United Nations define migration as the movement of people from one place to another Why do people move? PUSH AND PULL FACTORS. Push Factors.

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The New Immigrants

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  1. The New Immigrants Ellis Island and Angel Island

  2. What are the basic reasons for immigration?

  3. Migration • The United Nations define migration as the movement of people from one place to another Why do people move? PUSH AND PULL FACTORS

  4. Push Factors • Push factors are the reasons people leave an area: • Religious and political persecution • Poverty and war • Lack of food • High crime • Crop failure • Lack of safety • Population (scarcity of land)

  5. Pull Factors • Pull factors are the reasons people want to move to an area • Higher employment rate • Wealth • Political stability • Safer place • Weather • Food

  6. The Golden Door • Between 1870 and 1920, new immigrants came from the U.S. from Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, and Mexico • They faced culture shock and prejudice

  7. The Golden Door1:22:32

  8. The Islands

  9. Europeans • They arrived to Ellis Island in New York • Annie Moore from Ireland was the first immigrant • Extended revision (It was an embarrassing and frighten experience)

  10. Trachoma was the worse enemy of immigrants

  11. Asians • They arrived to Angel Island in San Francisco, California • Smaller numbers • California Rush – Transcontinental Railroad • Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882

  12. West Indies and Mexico • Jamaica, Cuba and Puerto Rico (Caribbean area) • Mexico (Annexation of Texas in 1948) • Revolutionary war – 7% of the Mexican population came to the U.S.

  13. Transportation

  14. Transportation • Steamship • 1 week trip coming from Europe (Atlantic Ocean) • 3 weeks trip coming from Asia (Pacific Ocean) • Spread of diseases caused death before arrival

  15. The Statue of Liberty (200, FR) “Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to live free,/ …I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Emma Lazarus

  16. THINK, PAIR AND SHARE • Why history is important? • What is the role of historians? • Who tells the real history? • Can historians manipulate the real history? • What are primary and secondary resources?

  17. Ellis Island • 20%were detained for a day • 2% were returned back home • Process took five hours or more • Physical examination • Government inspector • Literacy test in their language • $25 in their pocket at least • 11, 000 people per day (1870-1920)

  18. Angel Island • Ellis Island procedure + harsh questioning • Longer detentions and filthy conditions • Chinese were confined like prisoners • Small numbers (1851-1883) • California Gold Rush and Transcontinental Railroad

  19. Bottom Line What did these immigrants have in common? THE AMERICAN DREAM

  20. Cooperation for Survival • Spirit of community • Creation of churches and synagogues • Social clubs • Medical treatment • Newspaper in native languages • Orphanages and cemeteries

  21. Poetry in Wooden Walls

  22. POEM Everyone says that traveling to North America is/ a pleasure. /I suffered misery on the ship and sadness in / the wooden building. / After several interrogations, still I am not / done.

  23. Fong See

  24. 1620

  25. 1890

  26. 1950

  27. 2013

  28. Living the Dream

  29. The U.S. as a Melting Pot • Melting Pot: a mixture of different cultures and races blended together by abandoning their native languages and customs.

  30. THINK, PAIR, SHARE Is the United States a salad bowl or a melting pot?

  31. The Rise of Nativism • Nativist favored only native-born Americans • Anti-immigrant groups requested immigration restrictions (laws/acts) • Accepting immigrants from the “right countries”: British, German, and Scandinavian • Rejecting immigrants from the “wrong countries”: Slavs, Latin Americans, and Asians

  32. The Rise of Nativism • It was a high suspicion and fear of foreigners (jobs) • The many of the nativists were Protestant • The majority rules • Superiority of Anglo-Saxon • Immigration Restriction League • “Keep Out Immigrants”

  33. Anti-Asian Sentiment • Why? Asians looked completely different to the “Americans” • Style of dress and hair were not acceptable • Violent anti-Chinese riots • 1873 – depression • Prejudice people said “the Chinese must go” • Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (10)

  34. Segregation in Schools • Local board of education segregated all Chinese, Japanese, and Korean children

  35. Gentlemen’s Agreement • President Theodore Roosevelt agreed to sign the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907-1908 • It limited Japanese immigration

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