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what were the push factors for immigration?

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  • persecution in old country
    ex: irish potato famine, russian massacre of jews
  • overpopulation in old country
    ex: no jobs
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pull factors of immigration?

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-economic conditions in US
   need workers 
   owning land 
-immigrant letters 
   wrote home to families to convince them to come 
   image of america was free
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old immigration

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northern and western europe

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new immigration

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southern and eastern europe

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why did people want to come to america?

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to escape religious, political, or social persecution

new opportunities - jobs and owning land

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what countries were apart of the old immigration

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ireland, germany, england, france

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what countries were apart of the new immigration

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italy, poland, russia, hungary

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where did the new immigration people arrive?

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ellis island

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where did people in china and japan come into

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angel island

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what is steerage

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the large open area beneath ship’s deck

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explain what it was like to be in steerage

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no privacy, dirty, poor food, tickets were cheap!!

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arrival to ellis island?

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  • physical exam
  • incurable people sent back to homeland
  • literacy exam
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area where one ethnic or racial group dominates

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ghetto

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where did many immigrants settle

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where ethnic communities were already established

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what was established on the east coast

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big cities,

buffalo, toledo, chicago, cleveland

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examples of ghettos

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chinatown, little italy

17
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what did the nativist movement believe in?

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they were anti - foreigners
wanted to preserve American identity (racial superiority)
believed in manifest destiny

18
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idea that the US has to expand democracy and american way of life

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manifest destiny

19
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how many Chinese immigrants came

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25 million

20
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how did chinese face coming to america?

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  • people first admired for work ethic, then turned into competition
  • helped to build transcontinental railroad
  • americans fought hard to exclude them, not worthy of being Americans
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laws of the Chinese exclusion act

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  • prevented Chinese laborers from entering country
  • funded by Gompers
  • made permanent in 1892 and 1902
  • not repealed until 1943
22
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what did president theodore roosevelt make with japan’s government

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Gentlemen’s Agreement 1907

23
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called for San Francisco to end school policy and for Japan to stop issuing passports to laborers

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gentlemen’s agreement

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immigration restriction league

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  • anti - catholics and europeans

- wanted stricter literacy tests

25
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what did the immigration restriction leagues want with the literacy tests and what happened with them?

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they wanted the people to be able to read and write in english and it was vetoed by 3 presidents

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a metaphor used to describe the melting together of different ethnicities to become one new community

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melting pot

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tossed salad

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different cultures mix, but stay the same

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low - cost apartment buildings designed to house many families as an owner could pack in

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tenements

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slums??

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dirty and run down tenements

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the great chicago fire?

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18,000 buildings burned

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what was the 1879 New York law

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required every room to have a outside window

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each building narrowed in the middle and gaps on either side formed air shafts

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dumbbell tenement

33
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what did the 1901 NYC law require

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required hallway bathrooms replace backyard outhouses

34
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jacob riis

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  • immigrated from denmark
  • photographer of tenements
  • hoped to spark reform from pictures
35
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the social gospel movement??

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tried to apply the teachings of Jesus directly to society
focused on gospel ideas
instead of blaming immigrants, focused on drinking and gambling problems

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jane addams

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chicago Hull House

37
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community center??

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in middle of poor neighborhoods offering social services

38
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who was lewis hine and what did he do

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he was a photographer seeking labor reform and he photographed child laborers in horrible conditions

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