1. DO NOW
Why did people migrate to American from other countries after the Civil War? Give at least two reasons. Also, how were they received?

2. 807: Immigration
3/1

3. How are we going to learn this stuff?
Cheese

4. America is diverse = ==

6. Put ‘em all together

7. Theory #1: America is a Melting Pot=
Theory #1: America is a Melting Pot
the assimilation of ALL immigrants
result is an entire country of immigrants (all colors & races) who have given up their native cultures, languages, customs to adopt a purely American identity

8. Got it?

9. So what’s the deal with acculturation?

10. Lets break it down
Acculturation = immigrants maintain a part of their native language, food, clothes, music, accent, etc., while ALSO taking on characteristics of being a “regular” American

12. Push vs. Pull factors for immigration?

13. Old vs. New Immigrants Old – Northern and Western Europe
New – Eastern and Southern Europe and Asia

14. “OLD” IMMIGRANTS

15. “NEW” IMMIGRANTS

17. Exclusion The Chinese Exclusion Act – 1882
Limited immigration from Chinese to almost zero
American citizens had to prove citizenship
Gentlemen’s Agreement – 1907
Japan-US
No new immigrants from Japan

18. What does it mean?

19. What does “Americanization” mean?
Is this different or the same as assimilation?

20. 2008 DBQ Practice
Throughout the 19th century, the United States government made multiple efforts to “Americanize” various groups of people. Please explain the ways in which this occurred and what the motivations behind it were. Limit your answer to focusing on TWO of the following:
Native Americans and forced assimilation
European Immigrants

21. Classwork p. 449 Document-Based Questions #1-5

22. What actions did the US take to deal with immigration in the late 19th century? Was it successful? Explain, citing information from at least two of today’s documents.

23. James Bryce, The American Commonwealth, 1888
A certain part of this recent immigration is transitory. Italians and Slovaks, for instance, after
they have by thrift accumulated a sum which is large for them, return to their native villages,
and carry back with them new notions and habits which set up a ferment among the simple
rustics of a Calabrian or North Hungarian Valley. For the United States the practice has the
double advantage of supplying a volume of cheap unskilled labour when employment is brisk
and of removing it when employment becomes slack, so that the number of the unemployed,
often very large when a financial crisis has brought bad times, is rapidly reduced, and there is
more work for the permanently settled part of the laboring class. It is the easier to go
backwards and forwards, because two thirds among all the races except the Jews, are men,
either unmarried youths or persons who have left their wives behind.