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Immigration, Urban Issues, and Sweatshops The Gilded Age Immigration, Urban Issues, and Sweatshops

Objects: People: Time/Title: “The Proposed Emigrant Dumping Site” (1890) Inferences: Because I see ___________________, I can infer the U.S. feels… Conclusion: The most important thing in this cartoon is _________________ because it sends the message that…

Objects: People: Time/Title: Inferences: Because I see ___________________, I can infer U.S. citizens feel… Conclusion: The most important thing in this cartoon is _________________ because it sends the message that…

Social Darwinism *Survival of the fittest in society *Who is superior and who is inferior?

Immigration *Around 1800, the “New” immigration arrived (Southern and Eastern European countries like Italy, Poland, and Greece) *They were usually Catholic, uneducated, and had no money *American business loved the immigration (WHY?) *But many Americans did not feel the same and blamed them for overpopulating the nation *Asian immigrants started flowing in too (West Coast)

Push-Pull Factor

Ellis Island (New York)

Ellis Island (New York)

Ethnic Ghetto *Immigrants usually lived in neighborhoods with the same nationality ISSUE??

Tenement *Single-room apartments often without heat or lighting *Overcrowding and congestion in the cities *Lack of urban infrastructure

Working Conditions *Unskilled Labor *Low wages *Long hours (15 hour days) *Dangerous working conditions *Child labor

Nativism *Those that opposed immigration to the U.S. *Racial-Purist Ideas *Competition *Established Quotas

Americanization The process of an immigrant to the United States of America becoming a person who shares American values, beliefs and customs and is fully assimilated into American society.

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 *U.S. federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years