Immigration and the Huddling Masses

Question 1

4 immigration waves

Answer 1

1600-1800: british and africans
1820s-1856: NW euros and irish
1880-1920: SW euros, irish, and chinese
-significant chunk, 28 million
-one of the most massive movements in world history
-partner with industrialism in terms of being major movers and shakers
-1900 and 1910- largest amount

Question 2

3rd wave- why did they come

Answer 2

Religion
-in past- british and germans were prot
-now are catholic orthodox and jewish
Make money
Pushed out of home country
-may be reluctant immigrants
-famine in russia
-warfare in russia
-looking for a refuge
-conditions bad in their country- unstable government, farm life was bad, religious persecution

Question 3

many immigrants go back home

Answer 3

1/2 of italians will not stay in US- make money and go back home
1/3 return home
jews mostly stay
men will go and make money for their families and then go back home

Question 4

City life

Answer 4

immigrants go to major cities in US
many go to NY
87% of chicago is either an immigrant or a first generation american 
1/2 of NY
2/3 of boston

Question 5

living conditions

Answer 5

crowding, filth, noise, odors, crime
slum lords own terrible apartments and charge too much for them
-4 rroms- 18.5 people, every room is a bedroom
fire traps

Question 6

Tammany Hall

Answer 6

political machine
get rich off of political connections
they exchange favors for votes
corrupt but provides people with services they need
not democratic
reformers hate it

Question 7

Ellis island

Answer 7

scary
might be quarantined if you’re sick
15-40 men are the most common to come over during this time that left their family in the other country
the plan was to stay

Question 8

fears of immigrants among native-born americans

Answer 8

catholic jewish orthodox faith- not protestant, fear that they are bringing alien religious ideas
threats to jobs

Question 9

Jacob Riis- How the other half lives

Answer 9

1890
people are down too much on tenement dwellers
too much crime and poverty
of course they are because they are what tenements have made them

Question 10

chinese exclusion act

Answer 10

1882
banned chinese immigration to US and prohibited those chinese already into the US and prohibited those chinese already in the country from becoming naturalized American citizens