Immigration into the United States By: Molly Riebling AFNorth International School
“Old Immigration” ◦ Religion ◦ Opportunity ◦ Political Conflicts “New Immigration” ◦ Poverty ◦ Opportunity ◦ Religious Oppression
◦ New England Colonies Puritans vs. Separatists Pilgrims Religious Persecution ◦ Middle Colonies Establishment of colonies because of religion Quakers – Pennsylvania; Catholics – Maryland ◦ French Immigrants Huguenots: French Protestants who experienced religious persecution in France ◦ Spanish Immigrants Missions ( ) Ex. Sacramento
◦ Trade French Fur trade Dutch Traded with Indians ◦ Gold Spain “Lost City of Gold”
France ◦ Huguenots and the French Wars of Religion King Louis XIV stripping them of their rights unless they converted to Roman Catholicism St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre Many Huguenot deaths
Many of the “New Immigrants” came from areas in Eastern Asia in addition to Southern and Eastern Europe.
Employment ◦ Southern and Eastern Europe ◦ “Gilded Age” ◦ Tenements ◦ Jacob Riis – “How the Other Half Lives”
Industrial Society that the United States offered Gospel of Wealth ◦ Horatio Alger ◦ Andrew Carnegie
Many of the people in Southern and Eastern Europe were experiencing religious oppression from their governments, which is why they immigrated to the United States
“Old Immigration” ◦ Unfamiliarity with the land “New Immigration” ◦ Literacy ◦ Discrimination
Jamestown ◦ “Starving time” Roanoke ◦ “Lost Colony”
Jane Addams ◦ Hull House ◦ Places in which older immigrants could go to learn English Ethnic Communities ◦ Ex. Little Italy, Chinatown ◦ Kept with their old cultures, which allowed them to put off learning English
Chinese ◦ Chinese Exclusion Act Political Machines ◦ Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall ◦ Used votes of new immigrants to corrupt American political systems
Job Hunters ◦ People are moving around more Threat of opportunity ◦ Not as many jobs in the United States ◦ Outsourcing/Relocating jobs Increased connectivity ◦ Evolution of Telecommunication