1. Immigration to America

2. The Land of Opportunity. Conditions in the U.S. also attracted or
Availability Of
Jobs
$ Higher
Standards
Of Living $
The Land of Opportunity. Conditions in the U.S. also attracted or
“pulled” many immigrants to come. Many newcomers heard about
these benefits. News of these benefits was spread by letters to
relatives, steamship advertisements and industrialists seeking
to recruit laborers.
Religious
Freedom
Greater
Political
Freedom

3. To Escape. Conditions in immigrants’ native lands often propelled
Religious
Persecution
Of Jews
The Irish
Potato Famine
To Escape. Conditions in immigrants’ native lands often propelled
or “pushed” them to leave. Immigrants came to escape
conditions of poverty or religious and political persecution.
Extreme Poverty
& Crime in
Italy
Political
Persecution
in Germany

4. Danish Norwegian German Dutch Swedish English Scottish Welsh Irish
Northern Europe
German
Dutch
The
"Old"
Immigrants
Swedish
English
Scottish
Welsh
Irish

5. Southern & Eastern Europe
Italian
Russian
Greek
Southern & Eastern Europe
Jews
The
"New"
Immigrants
Romanian
Hungarian
Austrian
Serbian
Polish
Chinese

9. “Melting pot” theory – new American culture
Assimilation - The process when a minority group adopts the customs and attitudes of the nation’s culture.

10. The Melting Pot Theory Americans Italians Irish Jews Greek Russian
Polish
Chinese
Americans

11. restricting immigration
Pale face afraid you crowd him out, as he did me.
Chinese Exclusion Act
(1888)
All future Chinese
Immigration was
banned. This was the
first law in U.S. History
restricting immigration
Every dog (no distinction of color) has his day.

12. INFLUENCES ON IMMIGRATION TO THE
UNITED STATES ( )
U.S. Industrial Revolution
German Militarism
U.S. Railroad Building
Western Settlement
Revolution in Germany
Economic Depression in U.S.
NUMBER OF IMMIGRANTS (in thousands)
Famine in Ireland
U.S. Civil War
World War I
YEARS