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The New Immigrant

• The Blight of the City

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Immigration in America
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Views of the Newcomers

• What class of our citizens most strenuously
  resist the moral restrains of the community....
  who among our population give unrestricted and
  unregulated license to the ten thousand drinking
  places in the city, which are the chief
  receptacles of drunkenness, debauchery, villainy,
  and disease? It is the residuum or dregs of four
  millions of European immigrants, including
  paupers, felons, and convicts that have landed at
  this port within the last twenty years.

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Why So Many?

• Escape from poverty in their home country
• The streets of America are paved with gold.
• Italians faced poverty and hardship
• Jews escaping persecution in Russia
• Pogroms- massacres of Jews
• Response by Czar- push Jewish into designated
  neighborhoods.

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Voyage

• Steamship took 2-3 weeks.
• Most in steerage (open lower section of ship) No
  privacy- Very Unsanitary
• 1/3 returned home after earning
• 1890-1920 10 million
• Italians Greeks Slavs Jews and Armenians
• 70 came through New York City

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Italians on a ship deck
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Heading into NY
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Artist Depiction
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Entry and Settlement

• Immigrants were examined for diseases
• If diseased then quarantined or deported
• Settled near others from their country
• Ghettos were densely settled
• Restrictive Covenants (agreements among
  homeowners to keep certain people from renting or
  buying.

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Awaiting Examination
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Asian Immigration

• Chinese helped build railroad in the mid 1800s
• After paying passage they settled and worked side
  by side with the general population.
• Chinese worked for lower wages upsetting labor
  unions
• Scientific fallacies showed Asians as being an
  inferior race.

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Building the Railroad
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Other Immigrants

• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
• Prevented the immigration of new Chinese. Those
  who had already established residency were
  allowed to come and go.
• Japanese also faced restriction
• Segregated schools in California were outlawed
  due to an American-Japanese agreement
• Web Alien Land Law banned alien Asians from
  owning farmland
• Mexican Immigrants
• Hired as cheap labor to work in mines and farms
  in the southwest.
• The immigration restrictions placed on European
  immigrants in 1921 (Immigration Restriction Act)
  led to an abundance of jobs which led to a huge
  influx of Mexican immigrants.

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Mexican Immigrant Inspection
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Immigrants and the Expanding City

• Most immigrants settled in cities
• Growth due to transportation, elevators,
  tenements, factory jobs, mechanization of
  farming.
• Population growth due in large part to influx of
  immigrants.

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Vegetable Stand
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Bocce Ball
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Tenements

• Immigrants usually lived in very tight conditions
  in tenement houses
• Eventually laws were passed that improved
  tenements some
• 1879 Law Window to open air required
• Dumbbell Tenement New design allows some air and
  light

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Riis and his findings

• The law defines it as a house occupied by three
  or more          families, living independently
  and  doing their cooking on the premises or by
  more than two families on a floor, so          
  living and cooking and having a common right in
  the halls, stairways, yards, etc.  (Riis 13)

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Conditions

• The sanitary conditions in the tenements were
  very poor.  The outhouses were rarely cleaned,
  causing very noxious odors to permeate the
  tenements houses, especially near the windows. 
  The sewage, dirt and other unhealthful things
  caused many diseases, and the close proximity of
  the residents to each other meant that diseases
  were easily spread.

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Immigrants Gifts

• Addams promoted the Americanization of the
  immigrant
• She also suggested that immigrants should also
  integrate their gifts to society
• Less racist but still saw problems with
  immigrants

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Womens Views

• Progressive women did not like that many
  immigrant women turned to prostitution
• Mann Act 1910 Cannot transport women over state
  lines for immoral purposes
• Allowed government to interfere with private life
• Jack Johnson arrested for transporting his
  secretary across state lines even though it was
  consensual.
• Immigrant men spend free time in saloons tainting
  their moral fibers and spending the little money
  they made.