1. EOC Review What did Thomas Edison invent?
How did the inventions of the telephone and telegraph change peoples lives?
Why was the US called a “melting pot” during this period of immigration?
What facility did all European Immigrants come through?
What political party was nativist and what was their major issue?
Where did the immigrants live and where did they work?
Explain the working conditions for these factories?
What was the purpose of the Hull House?
Who designed Central Park?
What did the people in the city do for entertainment?

2. Becoming an Industrial Society (1877-1900)
Objective 5.01 Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on urban life

3. Immigration - Northwestern Europe Old Immigrants
-(Britain, France, Irish, Spain)
- Old Colonies
New Immigrants
- Southeastern Europe
- (Austria, Italy, Balkans)
-20 million ( )
- US pop. 38 million 1870
-US pop. 106 million in 1920
Chinese and Japanese Immigrants
- 500,000
- came for California gold rush
- worked on Transcontinental Railroad

5. Immigration
Ellis Island(European Immigrants)
-Ellis Island- New York Harbor
-Immigrants had to pass inspection before they could enter in the US
-Had to be examined by a doctor
-Document inspection
_Between million immigrants passed through Ellis Island

7. Angel Island (Asians) Immigration - Angel Island in San Francisco Bay
- Mainly Chinese pass
- Had to pass Inspection
- 500,000 new immigrants
- set up Chinatowns
Chinese Exclusion Act
- tried to keep out all Chinese except students, and diplomats
- Shows rise in nativism

11. Immigration Dumbbell tenements Jacob Riis - Author - cheap housing
-Small, Cramped
- built in cities
- used by immigrants
- looked like a dumbbell
Jacob Riis
- Author
-“ How the Other Half Lives”
- exposing harshness of immigrant life

12. Dumbbell Tenements

13. “Dumbbell”

14. Tenement Slum Living

15. Tenement Slum Living

16. Mulberry Street – “Little Italy”

17. Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives (1890)

18. Immigration Immigrant Life - worked in factories -mainly sweat shops
- long hours, poor wages, harsh working conditions
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
-146 Workers killed after fire broke out
-Doors were chained shut
-Changed policy on working conditions

19. Sweatshops

20. Average Shirtwaist Worker’s Week Total employees, men and women 82,360
51 hours or less
4,554 5%
52-57 hours
65,033
79%
58-63 hours
12,211
15%
Over 63 hours
562 1%
Total employees, men and women 82,360

21. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

22. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

23. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

25. - set up in cities to entertain the populations
Leisure time in Cities
Amusement Parks
- set up in cities to entertain the populations
- Playgrounds, parks
- Rollercoasters
- first Ferris Wheel 1893
Frederick Law Olmstead
- designed Central Park (NY)
- White House, Biltmore
Spectator Sports
- Baseball
- Prize fighting (Boxing)
- Rise of professional sports

28. What did we learn today? Old Immigrants New Immigrants Entrance Port
Europe
Asia
Northwestern Europe
Britain, France etc
Old
Immigrants
no significant number
Southeastern Europe
Italy, Austia, etc
New
Immigrants
China, Japan
Entrance Port
Ellis Island
Angel Island
Number of Immigrants
20 million
500,000
American Coast
East Coast
New York, NJ
West Coast, San Fran, LA

29. Questions Which part of Europe did New Immigrants come from?
Which inspection point did immigrants from Europe travel through?
Which inspection point did immigrants from Asia travel through?
What did the people in the cities do for entertainment?
About how many immigrants came in to America during this period of New Immigration?

30. Vocabulary Ellis Island Angel Island Dumbbell Tenements Jacob Riis
Frederick Law Olmstead