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Gilded Age

Gilded Age. Immigration. Brainstorm Why Come to America? How do you get to America? What do you do once here?. Give me your tired, your poor,. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, . The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

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Gilded Age

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  1. Gilded Age Immigration

  2. Brainstorm • Why Come to America? • How do you get to America? • What do you do once here?

  3. Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

  4. 1st Wave—The “Old Immigrants” • Source of original Europeans who came to America. • Mostly from Northern and Western Europe. • England, Ireland, Germany. • Numbers grew very large from 1840s to 1880s.

  5. 2nd Wave—The “New Immigrants” • Came to the US from 1880s to the 1920s. • How Many? • 2100 per day by the 1880s. • As many as 20 million come in the 2nd Wave. • Where From? • Southern and Eastern Europe • Italians, Croats, Slovaks, Greeks, Poles • Also smaller numbers from Mexico, China, Japan

  6. Why did they Leave? • Old World population grew rapidly • Flocked to cities for jobs in Industrial Revolution ; many unemployed • Letters from America painted a land of fabulous opportunity • Freedom from military conscription • Fleeing persecution (Jewish especially) • Ads from America – cheap land, labor available, need more people in new states

  7. Steam-powered ships accelerated immigration

  8. Ellis Island • Open from 1892-1954. • Approximately 12 million people passed through its halls. • Received medical and legal inspections: • Healthy? Capable of supporting themselves? Prevent contagious diseases from entering the nation.

  9. Nativism • Immigration to the US peaked around World War I (1914). • Nativism is the hatred of foreigners. • Increased with immigration, targets changed with each wave of immigration. • Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) suspended Chinese immigration for 10 years. • Other laws followed in the 1920s which reduced immigration across the board.

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