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Immigration

Explore the theories behind immigration, including reasons for leaving one's home country and motivations for coming to the US. Learn about the experiences of old and new immigrants, the challenges of assimilation, the impact of nativism, and the contributions of famous immigrants.

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Immigration

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  1. Immigration

  2. Push Theory – Why Leave? • Jobs #1 • Religious freedom - pogroms • Get away from draft or dictatorship (political freedom) • Land & opportunity(economic freedom)

  3. Pull Theory – Why come to U.S.? • Bill of Rights, Constitution • Big Business wants them for Industrial Revolution • Horatio Alger Myths – books of rags to riches stories • Land – Homestead Act

  4. OLD Immigrants – prior to Civil War (Northwest Europe) • Irish Discriminated against (catholic, poor) (Know-nothing party) • German – had money – get land midwest • English

  5. New Immigrants 1870’s – Southern/Eastern Europe and Asia • Italian (largest group) • Polish • Russian • Asian (Chinese and Japanese – came to West coast) • Jews • Slavic Nations (Hungary, Czech) • Greeks

  6. Ellis Island and Angel Island

  7. Effect on America • Built Railroads • Consumers of our products • Live in Ghettos (ethnic pockets in cities)(lets map Buffalo!) • Tenements – overcrowded dirty apartments in cities • City bosses took advantage of them (Boss Tweed)(a turkey for a vote)

  8. Trying to Assimilate • English schools created to teach them to assimilate • Brought different culture: foods, music, religion, and holidays (sabbath) seem strange • Backbone of the mining and construction & textile industry • Many are homeless, dirty, sick • Typhoid and Cholera • Pollution and crowded cities

  9. Nativism – fearing foreigners • Hating outsiders, fear new immigrants • Blame them for crime, loss of jobs,anarchy. • Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 – no more Chinese can come into country – extended until 1943 • Immigration Act 1882– bans paupers, prostitutes, and the sick • Gentlemen’s Agreement 1908 – no more Japanese workers in return we will desegregate California schools

  10. Jane Addams - Hull House in Chicago

  11. She Created Day Care, English Schools, public bathes, library, gymnasiums, pool, etc..

  12. A Home for Immigrants

  13. Jacob Riis Cliff Clavin from Cheers?

  14. How The Other Half Lives By Jacob Riis

  15. What is the Melting Pot Theory? • We all blend together in a pot and become the same (carrots taste like the beef 1900-1950’s

  16. What is the Salad Bowl Theory? • Together we blend nicely but keep are unique separate cultures contributing to America (today) 1960 and up

  17. Don’t write just read! Millions Arrive Including: • Bob Hope • Sigmund Freud • Cary Grant • Charlie Chaplin • Chef Ettore Boiardi (Chef Boyardee) • Roughly 12 million between 1892 and 1924

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