Immigration in the Gilded AGE High School History

Task / Condition  We’re coming out of the Industrial Revolution from yesterday’s class now going into Immigration  Tomorrow we’ll be talking about the expansion westward  You will be able to define the following: Immigrant, immigration, emigration, ghetto, dumbbell tenant, segregation, minorities, nativism  You will be able to articulate what types of problems immigrants faced  We’re in a classroom condition, sorry guys my time machine is in the shop

Lesson Vocabulary  Immigration- The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country  Emigration - Exiting your homeland, you may return  Immigrant - a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country  Nativism - the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants  Minorities - the smaller number or part, especially a number that is less than half the whole number

Lesson Vocabulary Continued  Segregation - the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart  Ghetto - a part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups  Tenant - a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments

Where Did Immigrants Come From  Immigrants settling on the East Coast  Midwest were mostly Europeans  Immigrants settling on the West Coast  Midwest were mostly from China and other Asian Countries  WHY?  Do you think they all came from one country or region in Europe or all over at the same time?

Where the Majority of Immigrants Came From Does it seem like the movement transitions from one section of Europe to the next?

Where Would You Live?  Immigrants often moved to big cities on the East Coast so they could get a job in the factory (Immigrants enabled the industrial revolution)  Some immigrants chose to move out west (homestead act offered free land as long as you could make it better and you had the means to get out there)  Not many immigrants migrated to the south…..Why not?

Interactive Map of United States  Class, remind Mr. Tom to go to the Map he pulled up already….. Thanks

NEW YORK CITY  “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled Masses yearning to breathe free, your wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Emma Lazarus, 1883  Ellis Island is a small piece of land that the government designated to be a reception center for immigrants arriving into the US. It became known as “The Golden Door”  New York then became known as “The Golden City”  By the end of the 1800’s nearly 80% of New Yorkers were foreign born  Clothing was New York Cities biggest money producer

Working Conditions  Working in factories long hours 6 or 7 days a week  Children working  Working in Sweatshops  Jewish people fared better than immigrants because of their religious beliefs they did not drink their wages away and they were smart with money not requiring things unless they could pay up front  Working in textiles was nice for Jewish people for many reasons  Could work from home and get paid for quota  Whole family can work (women as well)  Worked around religious obligations

Living Conditions / Tenements  Immigrants could not often afford nice housing when they first arrived to the United States, and because of human nature there were people figuring out how to make money off of this  Definition:  Floor Plan of a Dumbbell Tenement: 930&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMI1s- bo7LyyAIVh6keCh2Y-QuG&dpr=1#imgrc=yxJCULIleERCIM%3A

Problems Immigrants Faced  Agencies, work groups and some politicians had a strong sense of Nativism therefore making life more difficult for immigrants  Many Immigrants ended up living in Ghettos. This was convenient in some ways because everyone spoke the same language, had same culture and issues  It was bad because of condition of Ghettos  Minorities were often not allowed to have good jobs due to skills, language barriers or beliefs that “Americans” should have those jobs