Unit 4 Day 5 (Southern/Eastern Europe, and Asian Immigration) Quote: “I am satisfied the present Chinese labor invasion (it is not in any proper sense immigration--women and children do not come) is pernicious and should be discouraged. Our experience in dealing with the weaker races--the negroes and Indians, for example--is not encouraging.” - President Rutherford B Hayes Essential Question(s): How did immigration alter urban development? Specified Content: Chinese laborers, Chinese Exclusion Act 1882, immigration from Central, Southern and Easter Europe, Japanese immigrants, Ellis Island, Angel Island State Standards: Strand 1 Concept 7 PO 2: Assess how the following social developments influenced American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: b. changing patterns in Immigration (e.g., Ellis Island, Angel Island, Chinese Exclusion Act)

Southern/Eastern Europe, and Asian Immigration During the California Gold Rush Chinese began immigrating into the US. They were also important laborers on the Transcontinental Railroad. They faced discrimination and de facto segregation.

1882: the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed prohibiting "skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining" from entering the US.

By the 1890’s most European immigrants came from Central, Southern and Eastern Europe. These immigrants did not speak English and they faced discrimination from a growing nativist movement.

Japanese immigrants came into the US during the latter half of the 1800’s. They were brought to work on the sugar plantations in Hawaii as well as the fruit and vegetable farms in California.

Immigrants on the East Coast came through Ellis Island, while immigrants on the West Coast passed through Angel Island. Immigrants were required to pass literacy tests, health physicals and prove that they were able to work.