1. Americanization Movement
Lecture 3
Standard

2. Standard 11.2.3 Trace the effect of the Americanization movement.
Essential Questions: How did the United States attempt to limit the influx of immigrants?

3. So what “I” word is in America’s future?

4. Immigration New Immigration
Immigrants in the first half of the 1800s came from Northern Europe
German, English, French, Dutch, Irish
In the late 1800s/early 1900s immigrants mostly came from Southern and Eastern Europe
Jewish, Polish, Italian, Greek, Russian
they fled persecution and poverty hoping to find freedom and work

5. Number of Immigrants

6. The Statue of Liberty
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
-“The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus, 1883

7. Immigration Settlement Houses
Jane Addams set up Hull House in Chicago to help immigrants adjust to America
she got people to donate time and money to help the poor
she provide day care, public baths, job training, and language lessons
she won the Nobel Prize in 1931

8. Social Gospel Movement
applied Christian beliefs to solve social problems
targeted poverty, inequality, liquor, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, poor schools, and the danger of war
included groups like the YMCA and the Salvation Army
the YMCA (James Naismath) invented basketball in 1891

9. Mormonism Joseph Smith = Prophet Established in 1830
Extermination Order by Ohio’s Governor Boggs
Latter Day Saints (Mormons) were forced West
Settled in Utah

10. Nativism
Prejudicial reaction to the large wave of immigrants coming to the US
wanted to limit (set quotas) or stop the immigration of non-white, non-protestant people
Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
banned Chinese immigration and blocked Chinese from becoming US citizens until 1943
American Protective Association, 1887
tried to limit Catholic immigration into the US
also tried to ban Catholics from teaching in public schools or holding office