Tell the difference between old immigrants and new immigrants Before 1880s: Britain, Germany, Ireland, Scandinavia; skilled workers; spoke English After 1880’s: Ireland, Southern and eastern Europe Czechs, Greeks, Hungarians, Italians, poles, Russians and Slovaks (native language); Eastern orthodoxy, Catholicism and Judaism
What role did railroad and steamship companies play in attracting immigrants?
What was steerage and what was the journey to America like for immigrants traveling in steerage? Area on ship’s lower levels near steering mechanisms Cramped Poor ventilation No privacy Seasickness Disease
How did immigrants adapt to the differences between the United States and their homelands? Lived in neighborhoods with others who shared their nationality Newspapers in own languages Founded schools, churches Local shops Store credit
What were tenements? Poorly built, overcrowded apartments
“Dumbbell” Tenement
“Dumbbell” Tenement, NYC
John A. Roebling: The Brooklyn Bridge, 1883
John A. Roebling: The Brooklyn Bridge, 1913
Statue of Liberty, 1876 (Frederic Auguste Bartholdi)
“Dumbbell” Tenement
“Dumbbell “ Tenement, NYC
Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lived (1890)
Tenement Slum Living
Lodgers Huddled Together
Tenement Slum Living
Struggling Immigrant Families
Mulberry Street – “Little Italy”
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Hester Street – Jewish Section
Pell St. - Chinatown, NYC
Urban Growth:
Pittsburgh: 86,332 321, %
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