Immigrants and Urban Life

In the late 1800s, immigrants from Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, and Ireland

• New Immigrants

• Old Immigrants

• Nativists

• Steerage

In the late 1900s, immigrants from southern and eastern Europe.

• Old Immigrants

• New Immigrants

• Nativists

• Steerage

Area below a ship's deck where new immigrants traveled.

• Angel Island

• Customs

• Steerage

• Sweatshops

The busiest immigration processing center on the East Coast

• Angel Island

• Ellis Island

• Steerage

• El Paso

Where many Chinese Immigrants entered the U.S.

• Angel Island

• Ellis Island

• El Paso

• Customs

Started the Bank of Italy in San Francisco (Later Bank of America)

• Amadeo Giannini

• Pauline Newman

• Andrew Carnegie

• George Washington

Organizations that offered immigrant families help in cases of sickness, unemployment, or death

• Benevolent Societies

• Nativists

• Tenements

• Community Center

Workplaces with long hours and unhealthy working conditions.

• Sweatshops

• Customs

• Department Stores

• Chipotle

Americans who feared too many new immigrants were being allowed into the country

• Nativists

• Old Immigrants

• New Immigrants

• Pauline Newman

Banned Chinese people from immigrating to the U.S. for 10 years.

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Nativists

• El Paso

• Steerage