Warm-Up= Page 13 1. What is the difference between skilled and an unskilled worker? 2. How did those types of workers have different outcomes in the labor movement?
SLO
Migration: Push and Pull Factors What are they again?
Gilded Age: Immigration BPQ: What were the reasons for the Chinese Exclusion Act? Add to Table of Contents Pages 13-14
Who started coming to the US in larger numbers?
Optimism
Egalitarianism
Question on Notes What are the possible push factors and the pull factors for immigrants coming to America?
Assimilation and a Melting Pot
1880-1921, 70% from Southern & Eastern Europe Catholics or Jewish who spoke little English Majority were unskilled
US didn’t have quotas (limits) on how many immigrants from a particular country could enter From 1880 to 1921, a record setting 23 million immigrants arrived in the USA. At the time,. From the colonial era to 1880, most immigrants to America came from England, Ireland, or Germany in Northern Europe. Between 1880 and 1921, approximately 70% of all immigrants entering the USA came from southern and eastern Europe (Italy, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Poland). These “new immigrants” were typically young, male, and either Catholic or Jewish. Most spoke little or no English. The majority were unskilled agricultural laborers with little money or education.
From 1880-1921, record= 23 million immigrants looking for jobs & opportunities
75% of all immigrants entered the USA through the immigration center at Ellis Island, in New York Immigrants had to pass a health examination and anyone with a serious health problem or disease was not let in Inspectors questioned immigrants to made sure that they were not criminals, could work, and had some money ($25) The processing of immigrants on Ellis Island was an ordeal that might take five hours or more. First, they. Those who passed the medical exam then reported to a government inspector. The
Nativism
Viewed immigrants w/ fear, suspicion, or hostility Accused of taking jobs away from “real” Americans Called for quotas that would limit the # of immigrants
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
Nativism Video= page 13 Miss America Winner Backlash 1. What is the response by some to the winner of Miss America? 2. Why do you think it is difficult to be an immigrant in the US? 3. Despite facing prejudice, why do immigrants still want to come and stay here?
Tenement
Ethnic Enclave
Question in Notes Why would new immigrants want to live in an enclave?
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
Jane Addams and Hull-House
Americanization Movement Something in common?
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 Primary Sources You move, the folders and papers don’t! Get a stamp after each station. Complete the final question= 10 points!
Exit Ticket: Immigration 1. What factors cause a rise in nativism? 2. What factors contributed to passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act?