Chapter 21 - Immigration & The Growth of Cities

Reasons for Immigration: Push and Pull factors

Groups:

(a) Push Factors - Why did Immigrants Leave?

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(b) Pull Factors - Why did Immigrants Come?

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• Poverty & Hard lives

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Where did the immigrants arrive to in New York?

• Statue of Liberty
• Angel Island

• Empire State Building
• Ellis Island

Where did the immigrants arrive to in San Francisco?

• Golden Gate Bridge
• Angel Island
• Alcatraz Island
• Fisherman's Wharf

Changing Patterns of Immigration

Groups:

(a) Old Immigrants

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(b) New Immigrants

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• Catholics, Jews & Buddhist

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• Looked "different" then Americans

• Italy, Poland, Greece, Russia, Asia

• After 1885

• Looked "like" Americans

• Ireland, Germany, England, Scandanavia

• Spoke English

• Before 1885

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• Did NOT speak English

What is an ethnic group vs. ethnic neighborhood?

Groups:

(a) Ethnic group

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(b) Ethnic neighborhood

• A group of people who share a common culture.

• A neighborhood made of people who share a common culture

What is Nativism?

• The belief that the USA is only for

  native born white Protestants

• No Chinese

  laborer could come to the country and if

  you left you could not return.

• A

  neighborhood made

  of people who share a

  common culture

• The belief in the superiority of artificial intelligence over human intelligence

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

• A law allowing unlimited immigration of Chinese laborers
• A U.S law that prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country and if you left, you could not return.

• An agreement to provide Chinese immigrants with citizenship
• A treaty between China and the United States to promote trade

The movement of people from farms to cities is

• agriculture
• ruralization
• suburbanization
• urbanization

​ (a)   +​ (b)   +​ (c)   = HUGE CITY GROWTH

• Immigrants
• Farmers
• No land in the west
• Natives
• City folk
• Rich barons
• Land in the west

Immigrants came to the cities for ___________.

• free healthcare and education
• access to luxury goods and services
• opportunities for leisure and entertainment
• opportunities for work