Honors US History 3.9 The New Immigrants

​The New Immigrants

By Ryan Lemay

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Answer the following question using one or two words.

Why might people leave their homeland and immigrate to an new country?

• Democracy

• Freedom of Religion

• Abundance of Land

• Economic Opportunity

Pull

• Political instability

• Religious Persecution

• Overcrowding

• Economic Hardship

​Push

New Immigrant Push and Pull Factors

These immigrants came from predominately Southern and Eastern European nations. Most were Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, or Jewish.

New Immigrants

These immigrants came from England and other Northern European countries. Most were Protestant or Catholic.

Old Immigrants

"old" and "New" Immigrants

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These immigrants came from England and other Northern European countries. Most were Protestant or Catholic.

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Old Immigrants

New Immigrants

Angel Island, the major immigration processing center on the West Coast, mainly welcomed Asian immigrants, traveling across the Pacific Ocean, to the United States.

Angel Island

Most European immigrants arrived in New York City at Ellis Island, the major immigration processing center on the East Coast. Approximately 70 percent of the nation's immigrants would come through New York City at Ellis Island.

Ellis Island

Main Points of Entry

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Place the Ellis Island immigration steps in the correct order.

• Health officers boarded ships to check for obvious signs of disease before deboarding.

• Immigrants walked upstairs to the registration room while being observed by doctors.

• Doctors would preform a 6 second physical where they would mark immigrants with chalk to document concerns.

• Immigrants would be checked against the ship manifest and asked 29 identifying questions as part of a legal inspection.

• Immigrants were issued landing cards with their names printed on them to act as IDs.

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The Homestead Act allowed non-citizens to claim U.S. land if they pledged to become citizens. Europe's population was growing, while land owner opportunity was shrinking.

Rural farm Land

The Second Industrial Revolution created job opportunities for unskilled laborers at a rate that had never been seen before.

Urban Industry

What did the U.S. Have to Offer?

• Most immigrants lived in tenements, large buildings divided into single or two-room units. Sometimes multiple families lived together in tight quarters to share the cost

• ​Most people had no running water and had to walk up and down several flights of stairs to use an outdoor toilet.

Tenement Housing

Purpose

• Assist immigrants' transition to the United States

• Women reformers built settlement houses, or buildings that provided services to the newly arrived immigrants.

Jane Addams

• One of the leaders of the movement, created Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago

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​Settlement Houses

Settlement Houses Continued

• Services

  • English language courses

  • Child-care services for working mothers

  • Cultural activities for the neighborhood

• Funding

  • Most of these houses were run by wealthy, upper-class women.
    

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Provide English language courses

Provide child-care to working mothers

Organized cultural community activities

Large buildings divided into one and two room units

Sometimes one room housed multiple families

Often lacked running water

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Settlement Houses

Tenement Housing

The Rise of Nativism

Nativism

• Nativism is the belief that favors the interests of native-born people over the interests of immigrants or other groups to extremes.

• Nativist groups such as the Immigration Restriction League (IRL), which formed in 1894, grew to more than one million members.

Why would Americans Oppose Immigration?

1. Nativists believed that the new immigrants were undermining the traditional cultures and values of the United States.

2. They claimed the new immigrants took jobs away from native-born citizens and blamed them for social problems such as crime and overcrowding in cities.

3. They feared that immigrants brought with them socialist and anarchist beliefs

In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act

• Limited the number of Chinese that could immigrate

• The law was extended numerous times until 1943, when it was repealed.

• Many Asian immigrants would face discrimination due to the law's passing

​Chinese Exclusion Act

Open Ended

Using 2 to 3 complete sentences, explain two reasons that nativist groups opposed immigration in the United States during the Gilded Age and give at least one example of how they were successful in limiting immigration at this time.