1. Immigration

2. IRELAND 1845-1860 Potato famine Settled in – New York City, *Boston, *Chicago – *became political powers moved across the country *worked for the Transcontinental Railroad Union Pacific – from _____ to _____ to _____

3. Germans 1840 crop failures political persecution Settled in the mid-west (farming) Wisconsin (breweries)

4. German Jews 1840 Jews seeking religious freedom Settled in cities – New York City Chicago, Philadelphia, etc.

5. CHINA 1850-70 job opportunities in railroad building and mining

6. 1880s economic freedom ITALY, RUSSIA, SLAVIC COUNTRIES Settled – Italians – NYC Russians – North Slavs – North & Mid- west

7. SICILY 1880 - 1890 overpopulation economic freedom Settled – New York City, New Orleans, coastal areas

8. RUSSIAN & E. EUROPEAN JEWS 1880 - 1900 relief from poverty, persecution, pogroms Settled – Cities (mostly New York City)

9. Pogrom Carried out in Eastern Europe and Russia. Organized massacres to kill or torment Jews. Russian word for “riot”

10. Ellis Island

11. Port of entry on the east coast – over 16 million people (1 million a year – 5 thousand a day)

13. Landing on Ellis Island: The immigrants are brought in barges from the ships to the Island.

14. New arrivals from Ireland

15. Russian Jews

16. A Typical Italian Family

17. from Norway

18. Dutch Peasants: mother, son, daughter-in-law, grandchild.

19. Swedish girls on their way to Wisconsin

20. Russian family arrives in Dakota Territory

21. Slavic Women arrive

22. Just released, heading for NYC.

23. Ethnic Enclaves a.k.a. immigrant ghettoes sections of cities in which groups of immigrants lived, generally for social, cultural, or economic reasons

25. Melting Pot Salad Bowl

26. Melting Pot = Assimilation “ Americanization” – learn English, wear “American” fashion, “Fit In ”

27. Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-92 Ban on Chinese immigration

28. Angel Island “Ellis Island of the West”

29. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rredHTyKaQ ELLIS ISLAND

30. Angel Island Port of entry on the west coast Processed over 1 million **slower process – sometimes months No privacy – harsh conditions

31. Crowded ship docking at Angel Island

32. Japanese women waiting to disembark at Angel Island

33. View of Angel Island barracks from the dock

34. Chinese immigrants in San Francisco’s “Chinatown”

35. Interrogation

36. Chinese poem carved on barracks wall at Angel Island

37. Black Migration

38. Great Migration Southern blacks migrate north – To find work – To escape racism