1. Immigration
“The American Dream”

2. Immigration Articles

3. The Century: America’s Time - play until 22 minutes

4. What does this mean/represent to you?

5. Respond to the following poems
Dreams by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
From “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus
"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!"
Respond to the following poems

6. What are the foundations of the American Dream?
Write down your personal definition of the American Dream in your notes.
Share with a partner

7. Where did they come from
Europe
Initially from western Europe (Germany, England, Ireland)
Later from southern and eastern Europe (Italy, Austria-Hungary, Russia)
China and Japan
Chinese worked the gold rush, then the railroads
Japanese followed later

8. 24 million (56%) came to the United States
The U.S. had a policy called “open door”. No quotas, no restrictions, nothing to stop them from coming.

9. Why did they come? Push Factors: problems that cause people to move
Pull Factors: attractions that draw people to another place.

10. Population growth – resulted in crowded cities, fewer jobs.
Push Factors
Population growth – resulted in crowded cities, fewer jobs.

11. Push Factors
2. Hunger- more people = less food, shortage due to famine: Irish Potato famine

12. Push Factors
3. Scarcity of Land – mechanization of agriculture = less land for peasants.

13. Push Factors
4. Religious Persecution – Russian and Polish Jews/ Armenian Catholics persecuted by Muslim Turks

14. Pull Factors Idea of life in a free, democratic society
Opportunity to achieve dreams, acquire wealth
Farmland, natural resources
Jobs – booming industry offered jobs to unskilled workers
America Letters – letters back home to family

15. Easier Access to America
Switch from sail ships to steam ships made travel to America faster
Sail ship = 3 months
Steam ship = 2 weeks
Steerage ticket rates were affordable
Disease spread quickly

16. Immigration Candidates Handout
Partner-up
Read the directions
Determine who is allowed to enter?

17. The new Immigrants

18. Ellis Island
The center in New York where mostly Europeans (English, Irish, Italians) entered the U.S.
All immigrants had to pass inspections.
Physicals, documents, fit to work, literacy, at least $25

19. ELLIS ISLAND

20. Angel island
The check station in the San Francisco Bay where most Chinese and Japanese immigrants entered the United States.
Filthy conditions, harsh treatment

21. Assimilation
The act of combining previous cultural practices with those found in the United States.
“A melting pot”

22. nativism Favoritism towards native-born Americans
Led to distrust of immigrants
Roman Catholics and Jews

23. gentlemen’s agreement
San Francisco withdrew segregation in return for Japan limiting the number immigrants they allowed out of the country.

24. Chinese exclusion act
Forbid the immigration of any Chinese person except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials

25. ELLis Island Video assignment https://www. youtube. com/watch

26. Extension Assignment: “Immigration swells the workforce”
Get your history textbook
Read pages
Answer all questions on the handout