1. The Gilded Age (part 1)

2. When You “GILD Something, What are you doing? Answer: You make it more attractive or appealing than it really is. Our Social, Political and Economic system in America had several serious problems after the Civil War. We made our country appear attractive to the immigrants

3. Immigrants and Urbanization Melting Pot

4. War was over but did it actually change people’s mind about Slavery?

5. NOPE!!!!!!!!! Let’s stay in the South and put up with this.

6. And This Sharecropping Anyone????? Another form of Slavery

7. And This: Life in the Big Cities of the South Atlanta Georgia

8. Charleston SC

9. Sherman’s “March To The Sea”

10. Leaves behind Death, Destruction, Despair, Hunger &

11. STARVATION All of this makes me want to stay---------NOT

12. The only thing several had left was “HOPE”

13. Relocate to the area between the great prairie lands and Rocky Mountains.

14. HOPE, Opportunity, Cheap Land, Fresh Start and escape destruction of Civil War

15. Former Slaves and New Arriving Immigrants move to new areas open to be settled

16. Homestead Act of 1862 Live on the land, Improve it, And it is yours

17. New Technologies Help with the Migration Railroads and telegraph help

18. Oklahoma Land Rush 2 million acres(NOON 4/22/1889 50,000 settlers each could claim up to 160 acres)

19. Result of this population shift Indian Conflicts and New States

20. Cowboys and “Open Ranges” “INJUNS”

21. Cattle Drives and Map connecting to RR lines for shipment to the East Coast. Open Ranges

22. The Wild West and Cow Towns are Created Wyatt Earp Wild Bill Hickox Dalton Gang Doc Holliday Earp Brothers and Doc Holliday Abilene Kansas Dodge City Kansas Whichita Kansas Cheyene Wyoming Fort Worth Texas

23. Barbwire Closes the range and cattle drives

24. Immigration Social, Political, Economic and Religious reasons such as war famine and disease pushed or pulled people to the U.S. Ellis Island One week trip in Cargo Section

25. Where did they come from? Before 1871 they mostly came from northern and western Europe. After that people mostly came from Southern and Eastern Europe

26. Ellis Island Arrival/Inspection Center Some were sent back home. This is as far as they got.

27. Why do they Come???????? HOPE

28. How did they get here? This is what they did to chase their dreams Anyway they can!

29. Assimilate?????? To change your life style to be more like the culture of your new environment. Immigrants tended to settle in the same parts of cities and or states and let the assimilation be done by their children.

30. Melting Pot? We are a culture of many nations

31. Resentment toward the Immigrant!!!!!!! We are a nation of immigrants but this new group of immigrants were resented by those who were all ready here “NATIVISM”. CAN YOU SAY HYPOCRITE!!!!!!!

32. I wonder what he thought of us when he 1 st saw us

33. WHY the Resentment??????? They were not literate. They had strange customs. They worked for lower wages. They were society’s outcasts. They reminded us of ourselves.

34. So many wanted to come that US created a “Quota” of how many could come each year. Give me your sick tired and poor. Oh, wait, too many of you are coming in!

35. Urbanization: Cities grew faster then they were prepared for due to large amount of Immigrants. 1871 Chicago Fire Orange Area NYC Row Housing & Filthy Conditions

36. With improvements in farming it did not take as many people to produce enough food to feed the masses. People were leaving the farms and moving to the cities to seek their fortunes. People fled Europe to escape disease, war and famine.

37. Everyday life in the big Cities LOOKS LIKE FUN----- Imagine the SMELL

38. Sometimes there was not even Sewers, Trash collection or adequate fire protection for those in the cities

39. Child Labor & Factories LOWELLTEXTILEMILLSLOWELLTEXTILEMILLS

40. We are all immigrants except for one race and even they have added to the melting pot of America