Immigrants and Urbanization

What is the melting pot theory of assimilation?

• A mixture of people of different cultures and races who blended together by abandoning their native languages and customs

• Many different cultures living together but they keep many of their own traditions and customs

What major problems were caused by urbanization?

• Housing

• Transportation

• Water

• Sanitation

• Crime

Negatives of Urbanization in 1800s

• Poor living conditions, no sanitation, no clean water, poverty, political corruption

• Traffic on LA freeways

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• Immigration ban

Requirements to enter the US through Ellis Island

• medical examination, intelligence test, $25

• being a land owner

• ethnic neighborhood

Urbanization is

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

• The growth of cities and movement of people from rural areas to cities

• Americanization

• Freed education

1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers?

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• The Declaration of Independence

• Inventions

An example of Americanization is

• learning English

• becoming a miner during the Gold Rush

• Robber barons

• immigrants from Western Europe

Push factors for immigrants

• religious oppression, political crisis, war, & lack of economic opportunities

• medical examination and intelligence test

• The Stamp Act

• the Emancipation Proclamation

Identify the PULL factors of US immigration.

• Job opportunities

• Famine and war

• Religious freedom

• Political persecution

A political organization that controls election results by awarding jobs and other favors in exchange for votes.

• Spoils system

• County commissioner

• Grandfather clause

• Political machine