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Rapid Immigration

Rapid Immigration. By: Sam Rudy, Jeffin Thomas and Aaron Kargman. Background Information . Wave of immigration from Europe, Asia and Mexico. 1870 -1920 Over 20 million people Ellis/ Angel Islands – Ellis = East Coast, and Angel = West Coast.

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Rapid Immigration

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  1. Rapid Immigration By: Sam Rudy, Jeffin Thomas and Aaron Kargman

  2. Background Information • Wave of immigration from Europe, Asia and Mexico. • 1870 -1920 • Over 20 million people • Ellis/ Angel Islands – Ellis = East Coast, and Angel = West Coast. • Golden Door – Used to describe America to get “the promise of a better life.” • Immigrant Business, Land and Jobs. • Started by Industrial Revolution. • Bad standard of living and work in America (but better than unemployment in Europe) • 1910 – 1940 over 50,000 Chinese Immigrants came to Angel Island.

  3. Challenges Overpopulation (especially Ellis and Angel Islands) Food scarcity Cities began to overflow and cause unsanitary conditions. People were forced to live in unsanitary conditions and did not have the means to maintain their hygiene.

  4. Benefits • More jobs are created and the economy improves • Cities rapidly expanded and major cities boomed (New York, Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, Philadelphia and Boston) • Skyscrapers and mass transit

  5. Problems • Difficult journey to America • Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 banned all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants tourists and government officials. • Arduous entrance examinations. • Russian immigrants were forced out by Pogroms • Problems after entrance • Unemployment • Hostile Americans • Sanitation: overcrowding, pollution, diseases

  6. To what extent can a rapid development be controlled? • To prevent aforementioned problems (insanitation, overpopulation, diseases, unemployment, segregation) certain restrictions were put in place • People deemed unfit to enter country were turned away (about 2%) • Chinese immigration was prevented (Chinese exclusion act)

  7. Multiple Choice 1) What was the name of the Immigration entrance on the East Coast? • a) Angel Island. • b) Cheese Island. • c) Captain Kidd Island. • d) Ellis Island.

  8. Multiple Choice (Continued) 2) Why were some Russian Immigrants coming to the United States? • a) The Russian Government was selling poisonous food. • b) They were driven out by Pogroms. • c) There was a great amount of famine in Russia. • d) A & C only. • e) B & C only.

  9. Multiple Choice (Continued) 3) What types of groups were being segregated? • a) Mexicans and African Americans. • b) Asians. • c) Scandinavian • d) All people of immigration were segregated. • e) A & B only.

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