1. Immigration and Urbanization
Main Idea: Between 1870 and 1920, cities in the Northeast grew quickly because of __________ and America became an ________ nation.
immigration
urban

2. II. Immigration leave Jews Europe factory Bill of Rights
Why did so many people immigrate to the U.S.?
Push factors (why immigrants ________ home country)
1. religion: In Russia ___________ faced persecution
2. economy: downturn in ______________
B. Pull factors
1. opportunity- ______________ jobs available
2. Horatio Alger: wrote stories about ________________
3. freedom: the _______________
leave
Jews
Europe
factory
“rags to riches”
Bill of Rights

3. Russia Italy China immigration economic competition immigration
“New Immigrants”
1. East Europe- countries like _________________
2. South Europe- countries like ________________
Asia- countries like __________________
D. Nativist reaction
1. definition: when a native born American is opposed to _____________________
2. fears: _________________________________
3. Chinese Exclusion Act: stops _______________
Russia
Italy
China
immigration
economic competition
immigration

4. III. Urbanization cities
Definition: movement of people into ________, growth of _____________
Rural to urban migration: _________ less profitable, people from rural areas move to cities seeking __________ jobs
Results:
Rapid __________ of cities
overcrowding
urban areas
farming
factory
growth

6. IV. Living Conditions ethnicity immigrants apartments crowded
Ghettos
1. definition: neighborhoods organized by ___________
2. purpose: help ___________ stay united
Tenement Buildings
1. definition: __________ that were ________ and often ___________________
C. Reformers
1. Jacob Riis- How the other Half Lives: book showed the _______________ in the _________
2. Jane Addams – started the ___________ in Chicago, it was like a __________________ for immigrants
ethnicity
immigrants
apartments
crowded
bad conditions
bad conditions
tenements
Hull House
community center

7. How the Other Half Lives photos by Jacob Riis
Italian Ragpicker 1888