Immigration in the US

1. Objective: To discuss how immigrants adjusted to life
in America.

2. Quiz Ch 14 Workers
1. Steel company’s worker strike (H S)
2. What type of worker where mostly hired during the 1900 (I)
3. Law that made monopoly illegal (S A A)
4. Railroad sleeping car owner laid off 1/3 of its workers (P S)
5. Organizations that aid workers (L U)
6. Founder of American Federation of Labor (S G)
7. A bomb was thrown that killed eleven people (H R)
8. Work stoppage (S)
9. More than 150 women dies in a fire accident (T F)
10. The first major strike where workers of railroads wage was
cut (G R S)

3. The new immigrants
• They were Catholics,
Orthodox Christians
and Jews.
• Most settled in the
cities

4. Ellis Island
(New York)
• Gateway to
the land of
opportunity
• East Coast
immigrants
from Southern
and Eastern
Europe.
• Irish and
Russian,
Italian and
Hungarian

5. Requirements:
• passport
• medical
exam
• Competency
test
• Mostly
accepted
are those
with skills

6. • Those with visible health problems or diseases were sent home or
held in the island's hospital facilities for long periods of time.
• they were asked 29 questions including name, occupation, and the
amount of money they carried with them.
• Generally those immigrants who were approved spent from two to
five hours at Ellis Island.
• However more than three thousand would-be immigrants died on
Ellis Island while being held in the hospital facilities.
• Some unskilled workers were rejected outright because they were
considered "likely to become a public charge." About 2 percent were
denied admission to the U.S. and sent back to their countries of
origin for reasons such as chronic contagious disease, criminal
background, or insanity.
• Ellis Island was sometimes known as "The Island of Tears" or
"Heartbreak Island" because of those 2% who were not admitted
after the long transatlantic voyage.

9. One of many tests used to decide whether an
immigrant had any mental problems.

12. Reasons:
• immigrants who
faced
• war,
• extreme
poverty,
• Famine
• religious
persecution,

13. Statue of Liberty
• Immigrants greeted by
the Statue of Liberty.
• a gift from France
• Frederic Bartholdi
designed and sculpted
the statue.
• a symbol of liberty.
• seven spikes in the
statue's crown stand
for seven liberties:
civil, moral, national,
natural, personal,
political, and religious.

14. LADY 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."
Images courtesy of the National Park Service/Ellis Island

15. Angel Island
• West Coast
immigrants were
processed in San
Francisco
• East Asian (Chinese
and Japanese)

16. Melting Pot
• A mixture of
people with
different culture
blended together
• Abandons their
native language
and culture
• the blending or
fusing of minority
groups into the
dominant society
Assimilation

17. Anti- immigrants
• Nativism
– native-born
Americans saw
immigrants as
threats to
society.
– felt immigrants
brought crime
and poverty
– accepted jobs
for lower wages,
– Compete for jobs

18. Limiting of
Immigration
• with a worsening
economy
• Chinese Exclusion
Act
– banning Chinese
immigration for 10
years.

19. Japanese immigrants
• Gentlemen’s
Agreement
– Limited
Japanese
immigrants
– children could
attend
schools

20. Urban• Tenement
– Multifamily
urban
dwelling
(apartments)
– overcrowded,
dirty
– and oftentimes
had no
windows,
heat, or indoor
bathrooms.
– unsanitary

21. Hull House – a settlement house set up by Jane
Addams (community center in slum neighborhoods,
provides assistance, especially immigrants)

22. Help for the Poor
• Salvation Army

23. The worldwide expansion of the Salvation Army