1. 4 stages

2.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ttDUGM -1mU&feature=fvst http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ttDUGM -1mU&feature=fvst

3.  England  Why? Religious Freedoms & Economic Reasons – work  Received? Most were welcomed, some restrictions on rights such as testifying in court and owning land Roman Catholic and Quakers

4.  Germany & Ireland  Why? Escape disease and famine (potato) drawn by tales of gold and opportunity  Received? English were resentful these newcomers took away their jobs. Founders were anti-Catholic, churches were burned  China  Why? - economic opportunity came to West Coast  Received? – 1882 all Chinese laborers were banned

5.  Northern & Western European  Italians, Greeks and Slavic  Why? Economic opportunities  Eastern Europe (Polish, Russian – many were Jewish)  Why? Escape religious persecution  Received? All were blamed for problems in the cities SUCH AS: Overcrowding, filth, crime  1885 ban those seeking jobs  1891 bans insane, felons, diseased, anarchists and Illiterates  By 1924 strict quota laws

6.  Asia and Latin America  Economic opportunity  Middles East  Economic opportunities and political freedom Received? Japanese interned during WW II, Latinos in South segregated, post 9/11 Middle Eastern people discriminated against