1. Bell Ringer 4/27--Take out your bell ringer sheet!
What is an immigrant? Why might they leave their home?

2. Agenda/Objective
Objective: Identify push/pull factors that made immigrants move
Agenda:
BR review
Notes/Push-Pull scenarios

3. Over: Notes (push/pull), graphs/charts, identity, immigrant
Reminder!
Quick quiz on Friday!
Over: Notes (push/pull), graphs/charts, identity, immigrant

4. Push Factors
Compel people
to leave their homes

5. What are some push factors for immigration?

6. Farmers Land was cheaper More machines led to fewer farming jobs
Mexicans, Polish, and Chinese left farms

8. Persecution
Religious discrimination forced many people to leave their homes
Eastern European Jews were put in ghettos and suffered mob violence

9. War in China and Eastern Europe led people to choose to leave or forced to leave after destruction

11. Famine - crops dying led to starvation
Great potato famine in Ireland led many to leave home

12. Draw people to a new place
Pull factors
Draw people to a new place

13. What are some pull factors of immigration?

14. Religious Freedom
America gave the opportunity for much more religious freedom

15. Economic Opportunity
Homestead Act - new immigrants got land for cheap/free
Work on Railroads, Mines, Oil Fields, Factories

17. Exit slip
Narrative of an immigrant, including both a push and pull factor