1. Today’s Agenda Papers to return
Chapter 3 Test – if you were absent, please sign up for clinic.
Discuss Station Rotation / Ticket Out
4-1 Notes
Homework – 4-1 Vocabulary

2. 4-1 Warm-Up What do you know about where your ancestors came from?
How does that compare to immigrants today?

3. Objectives
Identify the push and pull factors that influenced immigration to the United States.
Understand the settlement patterns of immigrants and their influence on American culture.

4. Where did your ancestors come from?
Europe
North America
South America
Asia
Africa
Australia
Scotland
Norway
Italy
Germany
Poland
Ireland
Wales
Mexico
China
Morocco
Do you see a pattern? %? Why do you think this is?

5. Emigrate / Emigrant Immigrate / Immigrant
A person who leaves a country in order to settle in a another one.
Immigrate / Immigrant
A person who enters another country in order to settle there.

7. Who came to the US? “Old Immigrants” 1840-1860 frontier
Northern & Western Europe
English, Irish, German, Scandinavian
Mostly Protestant
frontier
“New Immigrants”
Southern & Eastern Europeans
Italians, Polish, Greeks, Russians, Hungarians
Asians
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Filipino
Few spoke English
Catholic, Jewish, Eastern Orthodox, Buddhist, Daoist
cities

9. Why did Immigrants come to the U.S.?
25 million
Pull Factors
(Reasons why people move to a new country)
(Reasons that attract immigrants to a new country)
Push Factors
(Reasons why people left there homes)
Europe
& Asia
Lack of land
Jobs lost to machines
Political Reasons
Religious Persecution
Revolution / War
Poverty / Hard times
Famine
Population pressure
USA
Available Land
Job Opportunities
Political Freedom
Religious Freedom
Better Life (easier)
Social Advancement
Family was there

10. PUSH FACTORS Northern & Western Europe Poverty Famine
Social inequality
Political tyranny
Southern & Eastern Europe
-religious persecution
-food shortages
-military drafts
-poverty
-cholera epidemic (Italy)
-Land shortages
Asia
Civil war (Taiping rebellion)
Famine
Land shortages
unemployment

11. STOP. THINK. DISCUSS

13. Stop. Think. Discuss What are 6 push factors?
What would that look like?
Sound like?

14. How did immigrants get here?
-$30 steerage ticket – bottom of the ship
(roughly $700 today)
-Cramped & crowded – 2,000 people
-Berths stacked 3 high
-Diseases spread
-Livestock filled space on return trip
- Little food & water
If weather was good try to be up on deck

16. Arriving
Once here, you needed to pass “inspection”

17. EAST COAST ELLIS ISLAND Most European Immigrants entered here.
2% denied
New York Harbor – Liberty Island and Ellis Island
1892 – Ellis Island Opened, Closed in 1954
1990 – opened as a Museum

18. Immigrants entered here.
West Coast
Most Asian
Immigrants entered here.
ANGEL
ISLAND
San Francisco Bay
Used After 1910

19. Where Immigrants Settled
Major Cities – NY, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit
Separated into ethnic groups – “patchworks” – Little Italy, Chinatown, Jewish Lower East Side
Spoke the same language
Practice the same religion
Newspapers in homeland language

21. STOP. THINK. DISCUSS

22. Anti Immigrant Feelings
Nativism – hostility toward immigrants by native-born people
Religious Differences
Cultural Differences
Loss of jobs
Union Growth

23. Anti Immigrant Feelings
Group
Reason
Laws created
All Immigrants
Feared disease and loss of jobs
Immigration Act of 1882
Quotas, 50 cent tax per person entering and anyone deemed unable to manage their own wellbeing not allowed in.
Catholic Immigrants
Religious differences
American Protective Association
Would note vote or hire Catholics
Chinese Immigrants
Take jobs
Chinese Exclusion Act
Barred Chinese for10 years and current residents could not become citizens
German Immigrants
Resistant to American culture
Bennett Law
Made attendance at public and private schools more strict – must attend English speaking schools within their parish

24. Please do now Journey Journal Entry 1. Where did you emigrate from?
Why did you decide to emigrate?
What was the journey (steerage) like?
4. What was it like at the immigration station and what immigration station are you processed through?
5. Where do you plan to go after this?
6. What obstacles might you face?
7. What are your hopes/dreams?
Once you have your journal done, go back and number the answers in your journal that corresponds with the 7 questions above.

25. Examples
Use a ship or draw the cabin