1. Immigration Does not include pictures
Malissa Troidl
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2. Immigrant
(îm¹î-grent) noun
1. A person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another.
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3. Do you remember the first ones?
What was the year?
1608
Where did they settle?
Jamestown
Who was one of the famous leaders? 2
John Smith
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4. Where did most of the Immigrants come from in the 19th Century?
Germany
Next came the Irish
The reason: the potato famine
Also the following:
Russia, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, etc.
Look at page 297 SS book graph 3
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5. 4 Why did they come here? Jobs Food Homes Escape political persecution
Escape religious persecution
anti-semitism-hatred of Jews
Wanted freedom 4
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6. Don’t we all wish this was real!!!
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7. The Land of Opportunity
Told that America, “Almost heaven. You could almost just grab the money.”
Seemed like money fell of trees to those living in other countries and everyone was happy and got along
Most were roundtrippers-intended on going back home rich
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8. How did they get here?
In the steerage-large compartments below deck of steamships
Cost 8-30 dollars and took days
Imagine being below decks for days with hundreds of people
Imagine the smell
Imagine the noise 5
What do you say, want to come to America?
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9. Where in America?
Most (70%) ended their voyage at Ellis Island in New York.
Once on the Island the Immigrants were inspected by doctors
“Are you healthy?” a doctor would ask. “Do you have any rashes? Have you ever had tuberculosis?
If he suspected anything he would scribble a letter in chalk on your jacket and chances are you were sent back from where you came. 6
NEW NAMES GIVEN AS WELL
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10. Cont.
A famous Immigrant who will come up later is Jacob Riis (Denmark) thought once he disembarked he would see buffalo and cowboys but was surprised to see that New York was paved and much like the city he had left.
Imagine you just stepped off the ship what would be going through your mind and what do you think you would encounter?
Immigrants from Asia met the same type of inspection on another island in California called Angel Island.
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11. Ellis Island
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12. Think about these questions while watching the movie.
Why was it called the Island of hope?
Why was it called the Island of tears?
Why were some of the questions hard to answer?
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14. Angel Island
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15. Boat arriving in America
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16. Immigrants Arriving
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17. Inside
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18. Men came first usually
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19. Commotion
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20. What happens after you arrive?
What would be the first thing you would do?
Didn’t have enough money to buy land and farm so most worked in the factories in the city.
FIND A JOB! 7
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21. Where do you live? Most lived in ethnic neighborhoods
areas where people shared the same languages and culture
Familiar food, newspapers, and help
Jewish-Lower east NY-garment industry
Polish-Chicago IL-Meatpacking
Japanese-Hawaii-Sugarcane fields
German-Milwaukee
Irish and Italian-Boston
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22. Was life “a bed of roses?”
Reality very different from their dreams
Crowded into tiny apartments-tenements
Worked long hours
Watched children adopt American culture and leave theirs behind-assimilate
Nativists-Native born Americans felt threatened by the new languages/religions and had to compete for jobs
Nativism-hatred of immigrants mostly Irish and Germans
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23. Tenements abcnews.com
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24. Bob Troidl:
Tenement Building
Bob Troidl:
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25. Chinese Exclusion Act
So many immigrants the government decided to not let people in
Said they worked for lower wages
Unfairly taxed the immigrants
Wouldn’t let their children go to public school
Banned Chinese laborers from coming to the United States
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26. A Lamp Beside the Golden Door
Emma Lazarus wrote a poem about the struggle of immigrants
“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-tossed to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
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27. Answer the following Why did Americans come to America?
Who wrote the poem at the bottom of the statue of liberty?
What is a nativist and what is nativism?
What is an ethnic neighborhood?
What part of the boat did immigrants ride in?
What island did most immigrants pass through?
What island did most Asian immigrants come through?
What was the first thing immigrants looked for after arriving?
Define roundtripper and assimilate.
Define anti-semitism.
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