CHAPTER 20The New Immigrants

What is an “immigrant” ? Someone

who moves to one place from another place

Where is Europe Across the

Atlantic Ocean

Above Africa

Where were the old groups from?

IRELAND CHINA

New Immigrants Greece Russia Hungary Italy Turkey Poland

Where were the new immigrants going to live ?

On the east and west coasts where they landed

They lived next to their own people

Facts Most came

from eastern and southern Europe

They didn’t speak English

Facts Most were Catholics or Jews

Fact

Why did so many people leave their homelands?

They were pushed out

And Pulled to

the U.S.

What does “emigrate” mean ?

To leave your homeland

Ethnic Groups

Minorities that spoke a different language

What is a minority?

A smaller group The opposite of a

majority

Look around the room… what different races or cultures can you see?

Well…..?

What are some things that immigrants have given us?

FOOD AND DRINK CARS AND SPORTS

Steerage

The cramped, noisy spaces on ships

Where did the Statue of Liberty come from?

France

Emma Lazarus’ Poem Read it. Bottom

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Ellis Island The immigrant

processing station in New York City

What coast is New York on…?

East coast, Atlantic Ocean

Angel Island

Processing station for Asian immigrants

Why did Asian immigrants come to Angel Island?

It was on the west coast, Pacific Ocean

Where did immigrants find work?

Sweatshops

Assimilate

To adopt or become a part of American culture

The Nativist Movement

Opposed immigration Why would Americans

oppose immigrants coming to America?

They would take our jobs

Chinese Exclusion Act

This law kept Chinese immigrants from coming to the U.S

Why did we do this….? There were lots of

Chinese immigrants

Immigration Act of 1917

Required all immigrants to be able to read and write in order to come into the U.S.

What contributions did immigrants make to American life?

They provided a labor force and religions and new cultures

Chapter 20 Section 2 – Moving to the

city

Why did cities grow so much after the Civil War?

Immigrants worked and lived in the cities

Only farmers lived out in the country

Industrialization Changed

work on farms

New machinery was introduced

African Americans Moved to cities

in the north to get away from racism in the south

There were more industries in the north

Transportation and Resources

Cities needed new ways to travel

Why did Chicago and Kansas City have so many cows?

The trains shipped beef from these cities

Steel Capital of the U.S. Pittsburg

Pennsylvania

Why did New York and San Francisco become shipping cities? Because

there location on the oceans gave them access to large ships

Why did cities grow so much?

They were built by immigrants

They all needed work

Strength in numbers

Tenement Living

An early apartment

Slums Nasty,

dirty, cramped, scary apartments

Graph – bottom page 591 Answer the question?

Suburbs Residential

areas outside of the cities

All the Areas added together make a Metropolitan Area

The Gilded Age Extravagant wealth with poverty

underneath What famous time of “Poverty” was on its

way to the U.S.?

What does gilded mean ?

Something covered in gold but worthless underneath

The YMCA and YWCA Aided the

poor with food, and medical care

Settlement Houses Provided poor immigrants

with a place to live until they could get settled

Jane Adams – Hull House The Hull

House was founded in Chicago, Illinois by Jane Addams in 1889.

New Inventions Elisha Otis

invented the elevator

Woolworth Building New York's first

skyscraper The Woolworth

Building, completed in 1913, was called the Cathedral of Commerce

Central Park Frederick

Law Olmstead designed Central Park in downtown New York City

Eads Bridge Opened in

1874 Stretched

across the Mississippi River in St. Louis Missouri

Brooklyn Bridge Connects

the island of Manhattan to the borough of Brooklyn

CHAPTER 20

SECTION 3

John Dewey Fought for

public education so you can be here with me

Invented the Dewey Decimal System

Land-Grant College a college started by the states from

money received from the sale of land given to the states by the federal government because of the Morrill Act

Booker T. Washington Founded

the Tuskegee Institute

George Washington Carver Used the Peanut

to change Alabama agriculture

What are some other uses for the Peanut… other than eating it?

Changes in Literature People started reading newspapers Newspapers started using pictures and

catchy story lines to make you interested

Yellow Journalism a style of sensational writing that

exaggerates the dramatic or gruesome aspects of stories.

The name came from the Morning Journal’s comic strip “The Yellow Kid.”

Realism Making stories relate to real people

Regionalism Writing stories that focused on different

areas of the country

James Whistler’s Mother

Ragtime type of music related to Jazz that

was popular at the turn of the century (1900) that had complex rhythms

Vaudeville

Variety shows that included dancing, music, comedy, and magic

Mark Twain

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