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Title: Coming to America


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Coming to America
  • Immigration is painful to all men

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Why do people leave their homeland?
  • Economic
  • Poverty, Famine, land of opportunity
  • Religious
  • Pilgrims, Freedom to Worship
  • Political
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Forced
  • Slavery

3
Waves of Immigrants
OLD NEW MODERN
WEALTH
APPEARANCE
TREATMENT
RELIGION
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Old immigrants/modern times
5
OLD Immigration
  • Old Immigrants (1840-1890)
  • Northern/Western Europe
  • Germany, Ireland, England, Sweden, Norway,
    Holland

6
Old Immigrants
  • Relocate to Midwest Farmland
  • Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio
  • Remain Isolated
  • Hold onto culture and language for several
    generations.

7
Old Immigrants
  • Wealth?
  • Appearance?
  • Treatment in America
  • Religion
  • Some wealth, buy farm, not dirt poor.
  • Light skin, light hair, white.
  • Generally Accepted.
  • Mainly Protestant

8
Old Immigrants
9
New Immigration
  • New Immigrants (1890-1930)
  • 18 Million
  • Southern/Eastern Europe
  • Italy, Hungary, Spain, Russia, Poland, Greece

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Travel
  • Ships (2 Weeks)
  • Steerage (bottom of ship) poor ventilation, food,
    air quality, toilets, no privacy.
  • Cost 50.00

12
Travel / Entry Points
  • 70 New York City
  • Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia
  • Ellis Island, NY. (Welcome/Process Station)
    Located near Statue of Liberty.
  • Who is fit to live in America?

13
New Immigrants
  • Relocate to major industrial cities.
  • New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston
  • Become ghetto dwellers.
  • Live in small cramped urban apartments. Make
    money and send for relatives.

14
New Immigrants
  • Wealth
  • Appearance
  • Treatment in America
  • Religion
  • Poor to Very Poor
  • Darker Skin, Darker Hair, (White)
  • Not accepted, Flood job market, appearance,
    religion.
  • Catholic, Greek Orthodox

15
New Immigrants
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Additional Facts on Immigration
  • 25 Million come to U.S.A. Between 1860-1930
  • Some want to limit Immigration 1890 (close of
    Western Frontier) No more West
  • Fear of Increased competition leads to new
    legislation/nativist attitudes

17
Chinese Immigration
  • Entry San Francisco, Seattle
  • Reasons Build R.R. Economic
  • Settle Mostly Urban, but found in Rural areas

18
Legal Actions Taken Against Immigrants
  • Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 (Cuts off all
    immigration from China)
  • Immigration Act 1917 (Ended immigration from most
    Asian-Pacific regions)
  • Emergency Quota Act (3 of each nationality
    living in America)

19
Nativist Reaction to Immigration
  • NativismHostility from native-born Americans.
  • -Racism
  • -Taking Jobs
  • -Wont become Real Americans

20
Recent/Current Immigration
  • Modern Immigration (1960 Present)
  • Mexico, South America, Asia
  • Multiculturalism
  • Bilingualism
  • Illegal Immigration

21
What is Janeks Experience????
  • What immigration issues does Janek deal with??
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