1. POLITICS, IMMIGRATION, and URBAN LIFE
CHAPTER 8 SECTION 2
POLITICS, IMMIGRATION, and URBAN LIFE
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4. Between 1865 and 1920 almost 30 million people entered the US.
In 1892 a huge reception area for immigrants on Ellis Island in New York Harbor was opened for processing of European immigrants.
Most immigrants who enter through the West Coast ports come from Asia (China and Japan). Angel Island was opened in San Francisco Bay and was similar to Ellis Island in NY.
In the mid-1800s American railroad companies recruit about a quarter of a million Chinese workers.

5. Labor groups protest and Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), prohibiting Chinese laborers from entering the United States.
It is not repealed until 1943.
Anti Japanese feelings lead to the Web Alien Land Law in California, banning alien (non- citizen) Asians from owning farmland.
This reflects the growing xenophobia and nativist attitude in our nation during this era.

6. Immigrants came to the US for various push and pull factors; examples
In Italy grapes were ruined by a parasite.
In Russia Jews were being persecuted in a wave of massive persecutions called pogroms.
The Irish potato famine.
Various Civil Wars, genocide, violence, famine, poverty, etc.
New opportunity and a new life

7. Immigrants traveled in steerage – the part of the ship for transporting goods.
Many would get to Ellis Island and were either sent back or quarantined.
When they got here they settled in ghettos.
These are areas where one ethnic or racial group dominated. (Italians – Germans- Irish )
Contribute to Urbanization

9. IMMIGRATION THROUGH ELLIS ISLANDk

10. ELLIS ISLAND TOUR
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