3. European Immigration EUROPEAN PUSH FACTORS EUROPEAN PULL FACTORS
Irish Potato Famine
Scarcity of land
Jewish persecution during the Pogroms in Eastern Europe
Armenian Genocide
American Dream
Familiar regions made easy transitions
Opportunity in cities during Industrial Boom
America Letters
Ease of travel

4. Asian Immigration ASIAN PUSH FACTORS ASIAN PULL FACTORS
Scarcity of land
Modernization
American Dream
Gold rush
Opportunity for work on the railroads out West
Many became farmers or worked on plantations
Promise of land

5. Mexican Immigration MEXICAN PUSH FACTORS MEXICAN PULL FACTORS
Escape poverty
Civil unrest
Mexican Revolution
American Dream
Higher wages
Gold rush
Ranching and farm work
Railroad opportunity

6. Industrialization PROS CONS Industrial production increased
Urbanization
More attractions to the arts and culture
Department stores
Mail-order catalogs
Need for workers: immigrants, women and rural area workers
Poor living conditions in urban slums
Increase in crime and poverty
Poor infrastructure
Pollution
Disease
Child labor

7. Immigration Backlash
Nativism: favoring interests of native-born Americans over those of immigrants
Many immigrants were paid small wages, had poor working conditions, encouraged to assimilate to American culture and experienced racism
Chinese Exclusion Act: 1882 law prohibiting immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years and preventing Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens; the first U.S. immigration restriction based solely on nationality or race