1. Immigration and the Industrial revolution
Summarize the significance of large-scale immigration and the contributions of immigrants to America in the early 1900s, including the countries from which they came, the opportunities and resistance they faced when they arrived, and the cultural and economic contributions they made to this nation.

2. Immigrants Early Immigrants Later Immigrants
From northern and western Europe
England, Ireland, and Germany
Anglo Saxon Protestants
From eastern and southern Europe
Italy, the Slavic states of Balkan Peninsula, and Russia
Catholic or Jewish

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4. Immigration Immigration from China Immigration from Japan
Significantly limited by the 1890s because of U.S. Governmental restrictions that required new immigrants prove they had relatives already living in the United States.
Slowed because of an agreement between the United States government and the government of Japan in the early 1900.

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6. Immigrants were either “pushed” or “pulled” to America for many reasons!
“Pushed” into America
“Pulled” into America
Many people fled their home country to:
Escape religious persecution
Escape war
Escape poverty.
Many people were attracted to America because:
Economic opportunities
Political freedom
Social equality

7. Immigrants were either “pushed” or “pulled” to America for many reasons!
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17. Immigrants faced Resistance for many reasons….
Religion: Anti-Catholic prejudice among Protestants
Political: political bosses promoting corruption in city government
Employment: taking of ‘native’ American jobs and drive down wages.
Different: morally and politically
Anti-drinking temperance movement was largely directed against immigrants
Opposition to labor unions was the result of fear of foreign radicals.

18. Ideas…
Social Darwinism and Anglo-Saxon superiority contributed to anti-immigrant prejudices and a movement to restrict immigration.

19. Ideas…
Immigration from China was limited in the 1880s because native-born Americans did not want to compete with the Chinese for jobs.
When public schools in San Francisco set up a segregated school system for the Japanese immigrant children, the resulting diplomatic confrontation with the Japanese government.

20. Restrictions on Immigration
Requiring a literacy test
Quota system that discriminating against immigrants who arrived after 1890

21. Opportunities for Immigrants
Jobs in American factories
Comfort in the ethnic neighborhoods
Public schools integrating immigrants with American democratic and social values.
Public schools providing educational options
Opportunity to vote
Political office
Started own businesses

22. Contributions by Immigrants
Economic Contributions
Political contributions
Transcontinental Railroad
Entrepreneurs: Andrew Carnegie & Alexander Graham Bell (from Scotland)
Supplied great part of the labor force (workers in the factories)
Turned out to vote in large numbers and exercised political influence through the political bosses and political clubs in ethnic neighborhoods.
Diversity helped promote tolerance and a more democratic society

23. Contributions by Immigrants
Cultural contributions
Ethnic neighborhoods provided foods and customs that gradually became part of the American culture
Examples of ethnic food and customs: Santa Claus and pizza

24. Birds of Passage
At the turn of the Twentieth Century, millions of migrant laborers traveled from Southern Italy to the United States. While some returned home, others stayed. All contributed to the growth of the young nation.