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Describe immigration during the Gilded Age? How does it compare to the previous time period?

This text explores immigration during the Gilded Age, comparing it to previous time periods. It discusses the journey of immigrants to NYC and San Francisco, living conditions in tenements, and the impact on American society.

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Describe immigration during the Gilded Age? How does it compare to the previous time period?

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  1. Describe immigration during the Gilded Age? How does it compare to the previous time period?

  2. A Ride Across the Ocean and then… • NYC • First lower Manhattan • Then Ellis Island – 75% processed here! • Medical examination • Questioning/Paperwork • Not a criminal; able to work; some money • San Francisco • Angel Island • Much harsher • Longer • Dirtier

  3. Where do immigrants go??? • 2/3 immigrants went to major cities • NYC, Boston, Chicago or Philadelphia • lived in ethnic communities • Why? • Turn into “hyphenated Americans”

  4. Is immigration that simple? • Read through your document packets and answer the corresponding questions. Doc 1 Doc 2 Doc 3 Doc 4 Doc 5 Putting it together

  5. Doc 1

  6. Document 2 five cents a day $1/month

  7. Living Conditions • Most urban immigrants lived in tenements • low rent apartments built in the poorest parts of town called slums • Poorly built • Lacked ventilation, running water, toilets • Also served as workplace for some • Cigar makers, seamstresses, et cetera

  8. Dumbbell tenements

  9. Other Conditions: • Infectious Diseases • 60% of immigrant babies died before their first birthday • Typhoid Mary, an Irish immigrant of course • Sanitation • Water • Cholera, Typhoid • Fire • Limited water, wood, candles, overcrowding Chicago Fire 1871

  10. Document 3 “A house to house visit to Mulberry street [the city’s burgeoning Little Italy], in New York, will satisfy any one that there are thousands of people in this country who should never have been allowed to land here. . . . Many of the Russian Jews who inhabit other streets in New York, and other cities, are of no better class than the Italians just referred to.” • The Chicago Post wrote, "The Irish fill our prisons, our poor houses...Scratch a convict or a pauper, and the chances are that you tickle the skin of an Irish Catholic. Putting them on a boat and sending them home would end crime in this country.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbyoUb3mp1E Trump

  11. Document 4

  12. Document 5

  13. Five Points NYC • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAWIZFqE6L4

  14. How will the conditions of cities impact attitudes towards new immigrants?

  15. “Destroying” America • Spread disease • Increase in crime • Less intelligent America • Changing American culture • Lowering our wages (how?) • Taking over government (why?) • Asian immigrants viewed even more negatively** why? Nativism – Native born superior Xenophobia – fear of foreigners

  16. Social Darwinism • Social Darwinism – survival of the fittest • This means what …?

  17. Anti-Immigration Groups/Legislation • Anti-Catholic groups • Literacy tests*** (vetoed) • Chinese Exclusionary Act, 1882-1943! • Students, teachers, vacationers, gov. • Gentlemen’s Agreement (Japanese), 1907 • End SF segregation, limit unskilled immigrants • Americanization movement • Discrimination in hiring, social clubs, housing, et cetera • **only want British, German, Scandinavian “stock”**

  18. Why is it ironic that native born had such distain for new immigrants? • How did immigrants make the Gilded Age possible? How did they make it “gilded”?

  19. Housing

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