1. Section 6.1 Immigration (Appleby 214-219)
Unit II: The Industrial Revolution
Section 6.1 Immigration (Appleby )

2. September 12, 2016 Today’s Agenda
Get Historically Important Person Project (HIPP)
Current Events
Immigration Slide Show continued
Family Tree Discussion
Homework
Finish your family tree

3. Objectives At the end of this lesson you should be able to:
Describe the change in immigration after 1890 (demography, culture, religion)
Define assimilation and describe problems associated with it for immigrants
List social problems faced by city dwellers

4. Donald Trump’s Immigration Policy
On Mexican Immigrants
On Islamic Immigrants
On Syrian Refugee Crisis

5. Current Events for Monday September 12, 2016
Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem protest
Hillary Clinton’s Health

6. Look at the photograph to the right
Look at the photograph to the right. What assumption might you make on this immigrant family?

7. Why did they come to America?

8. Why did immigrants come to America?
Economic Opportunity
Skilled craftsmen displaced by Ind. Rev.
High Rents charged by landlords
Available land in America
Freedom
Escape oppression
Gain Religious/Political Freedom
Catholics of Ireland, Jews of Russia
Kulturkampf in Germany
Feudalism had ended
Peasants no longer bound to land of their birth
Social mobility possible in America
Available Transportation
Steamships made passage bearable

9. Describe the voyage & entry into America.
Steerage
Rooms in bottom of ship
Most inexpensive accommodations on steamships
14 days
Castle Garden / Ellis Island (1892)
Processed in 1 day
Medical examination
Chalk mark on coat determined their status
“H” = heart problem
“X” = mental disability
Quarantine
Immigrants who suffered from communicable disease were held in infirmary until healthy

11. “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. “"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!”

12. Describe how immigration changed after 1890.
Greatly increased
25 million
Demographic shift
Before 1890
From Northern and Western Europe
Great Britain, Ireland, Germany
Protestant
After 1890 to1920
From Southern and Eastern Europe
Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia
New Faiths (Catholic, Jewish)
Poor and uneducated

14. What problems did they encounter?
Nativism- extreme dislike of immigrants from native born people/
Xenophobia- fear of foreigners
American Protective Association
Sought to exclude Catholics from public office, ban Catholics from teaching
Anti Italian and E. European
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Barred Chinese immigration & citizenship
Not repealed until 1943
We unite to protect our country and its free institutions against the secret, intolerant, and aggressive efforts…by a certain religious political organization…
See pg. 218

15. Do you know your immigration story? How did you come to be in America?
When did your ancestors (grandparents, great-grandparents) come to America? What year (about)? Where did they live? Occupation? What made them come here?
Complete the Family Tree Sheet as best you can

16. How did people in art react to these new problems?
George Bellows Presentation

19. Homework Using your notes and this photograph
Pretend that you are one these immigrants. Write a diary entry in which you describe:
From where and why you left your home country
Your voyage to America
Your arrival in Ellis Island