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Immigration in the United States during the Industrial Revolution. Population changes, growth of cities, and new inventions produced interaction and often conflict between different cultural groups. Reasons for Increased immigration “HEAR”. H ope for opportunity - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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IMMIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Population changes, growth of cities, and new inventions produced interaction and often conflict between different cultural groups
Hope for opportunity
Jobs, Land, a Better Life
Reasons for Increased immigration“HEAR”
PULL FACTORS
End to Oppression.•Freedom from Tyranny
• Freedom from oppressive governments
HEAR
Adventure.The great unknown; stories of the “West.”
HEAR
Religious Freedom.
Escaping Discrimination.Southern & Eastern Europeans:
Ex: Catholics, Jews,
HEAR
Problems Faced by immigrants
Immigrant challenges:
•In need of jobs•language barrier•discrimination •poor living conditions, •trouble adjusting to “city” life, or a new culture.
Discrimination against immigrants
Chinese
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: prohibited skilled and unskilled laborers from China from entering the United States
Really….kept the Chinese out of the United States
Irish
Irish came to United States during the potato famine (1840s) and steadily to the United States throughout the rest of the 1800s.
• Irish were very poor, considered illiterate, and were mainly manual workers (unskilled andsemi-skilled)
• Ended up a the bottom rung of American society
Filth, Disease, Illness, Fires, Bad Water, Poverty, and Homelessness
Challenges faced by growing cities
Tenements:
•Crowded, Small Apartments run by “slum lords.”
•Usually poorly built and dangerous.
A tenement house…
Like several in many large cities,
it was overcrowded, in
disrepair, and often had only one
bathroom with running water per
floor
Ghettoes: Run down city neighborhoods.
•These parts of the city are where the poorest of the poor lived.
•Rapid industrialization and urbanization led to overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods.
Efforts to solve problems faced
by immigrants/poor
1. Settlement Houses: The Hull House in Chicago founded by Jane Addams.
Jane Addams devoted her life to helping the new immigrants and the underprivileged
She also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931
The Hull Mansion pictured here is the sole remaining building at the location of the
original Hull-House. The rest were demolished to make way for the Chicago
campus of the University of Illinois.
Immigrant children at Jane Addams' Hull House in Chicago
Political Machines:
Powerful political parties who helped immigrants in exchange for vote
•Helped immigrants get jobs, housing, food, etc.
•Helped immigrants become citizens•Political Machines often accepted bribes
and “kickbacks”• Political Machines often used illegal
ways to gain power.
The most famous of these political machines was “Tammany Hall” run by “Boss” Tweed
• Specialized Industries (like steel mills, meat packing, and textiles).
• Immigration to America increased.• Migration from rural (farms) to urban
(city) areas.• (Sudden) rapid industrialization and urbanization led to overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods and tenements
Why did cities grow so rapidly