Push FactorsPull Factors Write down at least 2

Immigration Visa Questions How did you feel when you started this process? Why? How did getting the alphabet strip help you? Compare and contrast your experience today to what you think it was like for an immigrant in the 1880’s-1910 when coming into the country? What feelings were similar? How would their situation have been different?

WAN – The Immigrant Experience  The Promise of America  The Journey To America  Arriving at Ellis and Angel Island Leave at least lines between each title. Front WAN – The Immigrant Experience  Working and Living Conditions  American Attitudes Towards Immigration Back

Walk Around Instructions Walk around to each station and take 5-8 notes on the station based off the pictures and cations that come with them As you look at the pictures you should ask yourself the following questions: What is happening in the picture? What do you think they are experiencing emotionally? Why? Why are they in this position? What can we learn about US History from this picture? Cartoon? What is the message that the author or artist is trying to send? Why? What can we learn about immigration in the US from this picture? Cartoon?

The Immigrant Experience Discuss each of the following questions as a group. 1.What was the Journey to America like for immigrants? 2.What were the “promises” that America offered immigrants? 3.What was it like to arrive at Ellis or Angel Island? Describe the process? 4.What were living and working conditions like for immigrants as they began to adjust to American life? 5.What were the American attitudes towards immigrants? Choose 2 of the following questions and answer them in 5+ sentences each. You MUST use evidence from the pictures

Immigration and Urbanization EQ: Why did immigrants come to the US, and how did they impact society?

So what “I” word is in America’s future?

Immigration New Immigration Immigrants in the first half of the 1800s came from Northern Europe German, English, French, Dutch, Irish In the late 1800s/early 1900s immigrants mostly came from Southern and Eastern Europe Jewish, Polish, Italian, Greek, Russian

Push/Pull Factors Push Factors Political & Religious Persecution Poverty Pull Factors Freedom “Unlimited” Opportunity Work

Nativism prejudicial reaction to the large wave of immigrants wanted to set quotas (limits) or stop the immigration of non- white, non-protestant people Examples of Nativism Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882 banned Chinese immigration and blocked Chinese from becoming US citizens til 1943 American Protective Association, 1887 tried to limit Catholic immigration into the US also tried to ban Catholics from teaching in public schools or holding office

Social Gospel Movement applied Christian beliefs to solve social problems targeted poverty, inequality, liquor, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, poor schools, and the danger of war included groups like the YMCA and the Salvation Army the YMCA (James Naismath) invented basketball in 1891

Settlement Houses Designed to help immigrants “settle” into America people donated time and money to help the poor Jane Addams set up Hull House in Chicago to help immigrants adjust to America she provided day care, public baths, job training, and language lessons about 2,000 a week were helped Addams promoted reforms for workers’, women’s, and immigrant rights by 1911, there were over 1400 settlement houses in the US she won the Nobel Prize in 1931

The Statue of Liberty "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! “The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus, 1883

Urbanization - Background the rapid growth of cities created new problems housing, transportation, water, and sanitation, firefighting and crime from 1820 to 1914 immigration exploded 30,000,000 Europeans 700,000 Asians 900,000 Latin Americans

Dawn of Mass Culture Americans began to share common culture more than ever before newspaper circulation wars rise of motion pictures (The Great Train Robbery) nickelodeon height of PT Barnum’s traveling circus