New Immigrants in a Promised Land

New Immigrants in a Promised Land

by Erik Hauck

Poll

"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!"

• Washington monument

• White House

• Capital Building

• Statue of Liberty

Open Ended

"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!"

What does his poem mean?

​Coming to a New Land

​In the mid 1880's, large groups of immigrants began arriving from eastern and southern Europe.

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​Greeks, Russians, Hungarians, Italians, Turks and Poles.

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​By 1907, southern and eastern Europe supplied 80 percent of all immigrants

Multiple Choice

What country accounted for the largest number of immigrants? (zoom in the map)

• Turkey

• Italy

• Russia/Poland

• Norway

​New Immigrants

• ​Many newcomers were Catholics and Jews.

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• ​They lived in neighborhoods together and did not speak the language.

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• ​They had a hard time blending in to society.

​Push Factor

• ​Push factor means people were pushed to leave their native land because of various reasons: lack of jobs, crop failures, economic hardships.

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• ​Some came because they were persecuted against .

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• ​Emigrate means to leave one's homeland to live somewhere else.

​Pull Factors

• ​Pull factors were reasons that "pulled" people to America.

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• ​Jobs, land, hope, family are examples of some "Pull factors".

Multiple Select

What was the overall "Pull" that drew people to America?

• Jobs

• Hope

• Land

• Family

​Entering the U.S.

• ​Immigrants from Europe landed in New York City and went through Ellis Island.

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• ​Immigrants arriving from Asian countries on the West Coast went through Angel Island in San Francisco Bay.

​Immigration Centers

• ​Examiners at these centers recorded immigrants' names. Sometimes shortening them.

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• ​Also recorded where they came from, occupation, and if they had relatives.

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• ​They were given health exams and could be stopped from entering.

​The Immigrant Experience

• ​Once they made it through the processing centers, they were on their own.

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• ​First obstacle was to find a job.

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• ​Large number of immigrant men worked in the steel mills, in Pittsburgh.

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• ​Women and children in sweatshops.

​Assimilation

• ​New immigrants also had to adjust to the life in America.

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• ​Many assimilated which means become apart of a larger culture.

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• ​Sometimes the new culture and their old caused conflict.

Multiple Choice

To become part of a larger culture is

• assimilate

• immigrate

• emigrate

• ethnic group

​Ethnic Neighbors

• ​New immigrants often settled in communities of their ethnic groups, people who share a common culture or heritage.

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• ​Neighborhoods of Jewish, Italians, Chinese and other groups developed in many cities.

​Nativists

• ​Nativists were anti-immigrant people in the U.S.

• ​They feared immigrants would take away jobs and drive down wages.

• ​They also blamed crime and other problems on new immigrants.

​Chinese Exclusion Act

• ​In 1882, Congress passed this law which prohibited Chinese workers from entering the U.S. for 10 years.

• ​Congress extended the law in 1892, again in 1902.

• ​A similar law was passed to exclude Japanese

Open Ended

Why do you think there was not as many immigrants from China and Japan during this time based on what you have learned?

Multiple Choice

People who share a common culture of heritage are called

• immigrants

• nativists

• emigrants

• ethnic groups

Multiple Choice

People who were against immigration were called

• ethnic groups

• nativists

• emigrants

• immigrants

Open Ended

What do you think was the greatest challenge facing new immigrants? Write a short response.