Objectives: Students will be able to…(1) form an opinion about immigration laws (2) read text for key information Homework: Worksheet from Mr. Collison DO NOW: WHAT ARE SOME REASONS WHY SOMEONE WOULD LEAVE THEIR COUNTRY?

 Push – Reasons ‘pushing’ people out of their country (i.e. a Civil War or no jobs)  Pull – Reasons people would be pulled towards a country (i.e. opportunity or lots of jobs) PUSH AND PULL FACTORS

 Once you are done with the questions, answer the following:  Do you believe we need stricter immigration laws or not? Be sure to USE and explain 2 reasons from the book (1 Paragraph) GRAB A BOOK AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ON PAGE

 Read and answer the following questions  Where did Hannah’s husband move to?  Copy one quote about that shows how excited Hannah and her family were to come to the US “AN AMERICAN STORY” PG. 464

Objectives: Students will be able to...(1) analyze a political cartoon (2) define nativism Homework: 15.1 DUE Monday DO NOW: GRAB A WORKSHEET AND COMPLETE ‘DO NOW’

 Poem was donation written to help raise $$$ for Statue of Liberty  Refers to immigration from other countries  Words etched on Statue NEW COLOSSUS DISCUSSION

 Booked passage in steerage – basic/cheap accommodation on ship Narrow, steep, and slippery stairways lead to it. Crowds everywhere, ill smelling bunks, uninviting washrooms--this is steerage. The odors of scattered orange peelings, tobacco, garlic, and disinfectants, meeting but not blending. No lounge or chairs for comfort, and continual babble of tongues—this is steerage. The food, which is miserable, is dealt our of huge kettles into the dinner pails provided by the steamship company. When it is distributed, the stronger push and crowd… THE ATLANTIC VOYAGE

 Used to take a day – non stop people coming  Pass through the doctors  Some put in isolation for suspicious illnesses  Marked them  “H” – Heart problems  “K” – Hernias  “Sc” – Scalp problems  “X” mental disability  =5rredHTyKaQ =5rredHTyKaQ ELLIS ISLAND

 Immigrants would settle in areas of city  “Little Italy” or “Chinatown”  Created their own societies ETHNIC CITIES

 Mid-1800s – China’s population 430 MILLION (US OLNY 350 Million)  Unemployment and poverty in China  Taiping Rebellion – 1850 – Took 20 Million lives  Came to US:  Worked on Railroads  Gold mines  Started own stores ASIAN IMMIGRATION (CHINA)

 Immigration increased in  Industrial economy and empire (Hardships)  1910 – California created Angel Island (West-Coast Ellis Island) ASIAN IMMIGRATION (JAPAN)

 Nativism – extreme dislike of immigrants by native born people  Reasons for opposition:  Afraid too many Catholics would come  Immigrants would work for cheap NATIVISM RETURNS

1. Identify and label:  USA  Canada  Mexico  South America  Japan  China  Africa  Europe  Asia 2. Draw arrows of migration from the places on the map to the US and include total number of immigrants. 3. Fill in “Push” and “Pull” Factors MAP ACTIVITY PG. 465

 American Protective Association – Anti-Catholic (Northeast/Midwest)  Workingman’s Party of California – Anti-Asian immigration (West Coast) Impact:  1882 Law:  Banned convicts, paupers, and mentally disabled  50 cents a head  Chinese Exclusion Act: No Chinese immigrants 10 years ANTI-IMMIGRANT