Gilded Age Review

Gilded Age Review

Immigration, Migration & Native Americans

Immigration Big Ideas

• "Old" immigrants came to America roughly before 1880 and were from NW Europe

• "New" immigrants came to America after 1880 and were from SE Europe

• Immigrants came to America for lots of reasons (push and pull factors)

• Some Americans were not crazy about new immigrants coming to America (nativists)

Migration Big Ideas

• the South continued to treat African Americans poorly after the Civil War (Jim Crow laws, KKK, lynchings, segregation, poll taxes & literacy tests restricted voting rights of African American men)

• Consequently, many African Americans moved North in the early 1900s to escape poor treatment in the South (push factors) and find better treatment and economic opportunities (pull factors) in the North

Native Americans

• Native Americans have been treated unfairly by the US government & its citizens for as long as the US has been a nation

• Initially, Native Americans were pushed west for less desirable land so that white settlers could develop land once owned by Native Americans

• Eventually, Native Americans were pushed onto reservations so white settlers could develop the land and resources on the land for themselves

• As a result, Native Americans were forced to assimilate (be more like "Americans") and give up many of their cultural beliefs

Multiple Choice

Nativists wanted to

• group immigrants into their own sections of the city

• provide welfare for the new immigrants moving to the United States

• limit immigration

• convert immigrants to Protestantism

Multiple Choice

What economic factor primarily contributed to the movement of African Americans from the South to the North during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

• greater employment opportunities in urban areas

• increased imports from newly acquired US territories

• the availability of free land under the Homestead Act

• the need for agricultural workers to feed a growing population

Multiple Choice

Many Americans believed in the doctrine known as "Manifest Destiny" in the mid to late 1800s in which the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. How did white settlers' belief in Manifest Destiny affect Native Americans?

• Native Americans were given tools and resources to farm new land

• Native Americans engaged in multiple battles with white settlers

• Native Americans lost more territory due to white settler expansion

• Native Americans settled and adapted to the ways of white settlers