1. Do YOU Have What It Takes
Do YOU Have What It Takes? Focus Question(s): How did immigration affect the religious composition of the US from 1860 to 2000? (Theme 2 KQ 4) Specified Content: Immigration and religious diversification: the importance of Judaism, Catholicism, varieties of Protestantism (Presbyterianism, Methodism, German immigrants and Lutherans) (Theme 2 KQ 4) State Standards: Strand 1 Concept 7 PO 2

2. Between 1870 and 1920, 20 million immigrants came into the country
Between 1870 and 1920, 20 million immigrants came into the country. They came from Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Austro-Hungary, etc.
Push Factors
Religious persecution
Russian Massacre of Jews
Loss of farms due to crop loss (Potato Famine)
Pull Factors
Friends or family who were already here.
American factories sent recruiting agents.
Railroads posted advertisements for land.

4. By 1920 more than 200,000 Japanese lived on the west coast. 
Between 1880 and 1920 about 260,000 immigrants from the West Indies arrived.
Many came from Jamaica, Cuba, and Puerto Rico.
Many Mexican immigrants entered the country as well

5. The Journey- could only afford cheap fares
The Journey- could only afford cheap fares. often stuffed below the deck of a boat with 2,000 other people. Safety and hygiene were low, and contaminated water killed many
European immigrants landed on Ellis Island, and those from the West landed at Angel Island.
  Many people were detained for days while undergoing inspections
Culture shock- the confusion, anxiety language, customs, jobs, etc..

6. I Was Dreaming to Come to America
A.) Ellis Island
Had to pass inspection
Was a long ordeal. Many hours, sometimes days.
“The language was a problem of course, but it was overcome by the use of interpreters…it would happen sometimes that these interpreters—some of them—were really softhearted people and hated to see people being departed, and they would, at times, help the aliens by interpreting in such a manner as to benefit the alien and not the government.”
-- Edward Ferro –
I Was Dreaming to Come to America

7. Anti Immigrant feelings- American workers resented immigrants because they were cheap labor.
The Chinese came over to work the railroads, but when they were through, the doors to other jobs were shut elsewhere.
Chinese Exclusion Act- banned entry to the country for all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists and government officials.