Immigration Immigration 1877 1900 Reasons Better life Refugees
Immigration
Immigration 1877 -1900 • • • Reasons: Better life Refugees Famine Religious Persecution Temporary reasons
Who? • • Europeans : 20 million Europeans From all of Europe East coast, Ellis Island New York Chinese: West coast, Angel Island San Fran Japan
Ellis Island Angel Island • Ellis NYC immigrant inspection station • Angel San Francisco immigrant inspection station • Inspect health and ID
Emma Lazarus ‘The New Colossus’ (1883) • This sonnet is located on a plaque on the Statue of Liberty. “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-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Angel Island
Urbanization • Moving to the city
Problems from Urbanization • • A lot of poverty Crime Pollution Disease More government Corrupt government Crowded housing
Urbanization • Immigrants settle in ghetto neighborhood. • Face discrimination • Defacto seg.
Urban Life • American Leisure • Extra time: middle class free time
Reform(change) for Urban poor • Social Gospel- religious movement that preached salvation through service to the poor • Settlement houses : Provide help to the immigrants, Education, Social Services.
Carry Nation • Women’s Christian Temperance Union • Abolish • Alcohol=Prohibition
Mother Jones • Organizes the United Mine Worker of America • Exposed cruelty of child labor • Went to see President Roosevelt • Also worked for women workers
People oppose immigrants • Nativism: Favors people born in america • Gov action • Chinese Exclusion Act 1882, banned entry of Chinese except skilled • Americanization – Assimilation “Make them American”
Nativism • In response to rise in immigrant population. • Immigrant culture makes a melting pot. • #1 method for Americanizing immigrants=schools.
Why do we have nativism in the USA? • Fear what they do not know • Fear immigrants will corrupt America • Many laborers feared abolitionist movements. Feared blacks would take their jobs.
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