1. Immigration, Urban Issues, and Sweatshops
The Gilded Age
Immigration, Urban Issues, and Sweatshops

2. Objects:
People:
Time/Title: “The Proposed Emigrant Dumping Site” (1890)
Inferences: Because I see ___________________, I can infer the U.S. feels…
Conclusion: The most important thing in this cartoon is _________________ because it sends the message that…

3. Objects:
People:
Time/Title:
Inferences: Because I see ___________________, I can infer U.S. citizens feel…
Conclusion: The most important thing in this cartoon is _________________ because it sends the message that…

4. Social Darwinism *Survival of the fittest in society
*Who is superior and who is inferior?

5. Immigration
*Around 1800, the “New” immigration arrived (Southern and Eastern European countries like Italy, Poland, and Greece)
*They were usually Catholic, uneducated, and had no money
*American business loved the immigration (WHY?)
*But many Americans did not feel the same and blamed them for overpopulating the nation
*Asian immigrants started flowing in too (West Coast)

6. Push-Pull Factor

7. Ellis Island (New York)

8. Ellis Island (New York)

9. Ethnic Ghetto
*Immigrants usually lived in neighborhoods with the same nationality
ISSUE??

10. Tenement *Single-room apartments often without heat or lighting
*Overcrowding and congestion in the cities
*Lack of urban infrastructure

14. Working Conditions
*Unskilled Labor
*Low wages
*Long hours (15 hour days)
*Dangerous working conditions
*Child labor

15. Nativism *Those that opposed immigration to the U.S.
*Racial-Purist Ideas
*Competition
*Established Quotas

16. Americanization
The process of an immigrant to the United States of America becoming a person who shares American values, beliefs and customs and is fully assimilated into American society.

17. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
*U.S. federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years