WARM UP (HONORS)

Drop off last week’s warm-up sheet & pick up the new one for this week!

Imagine you are moving to a new country and you can only pack one suitcase. What would you pack?

WARM UP (CP)Read the “Gateway to Hope” cartoon and answer these questions:

1.What were two reasons immigrants came to America?

2.Did all immigrants stay in America? How do you know?

3.Was life easy for new immigrants in America?

REVIEW

Before 1890: Mainly Northern/Western Europe

After 1890: Southern/Eastern Europe

POPULATION CHANGE

US population 1860: 31.5 million

US population 1920: 61.5 million

WHY DID THEY LEAVE?

PUSH/PULL!!

PUSH FACTORS

PUSH FACTORS

Lack of jobs!

PUSH FACTORS

Gov’t tyranny

PUSH FACTORS

Crop Failures! Land Shortages!

PUSH FACTORS

Famine

PUSH FACTORS

High taxes/cost of living

PUSH FACTORS

Political/Religious Persecution

BUT HOW DID THEY GET HERE???

Steamships!

2-3 weeks to 1 week by 1900

Created “birds of passage”-single male worker who came for a short time, earn money, and return home

STEERAGE

For the “economically disadvantaged” Most immigrants travelled in steerage

Large open area under the ship’s deck Cheap fares Limited toilet facilities w/ no privacy

WELCOME TO AMERICA!

BostonPhiladelphiaBaltimoreSeattleSan FranciscoBut New York was most popular!

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What was the first immigration station

in America?

CASTLE GARDEN!

Castle Garden

Opened in 1855 Southern tip of Manhattan 70% of all European immigrants arrived in

NYC Admitted 8 mil. people from 1855-1890 Closed in 1890—overwhelmed!!

Ellis Island opens in 1892

Ellis Island

NY harbor “Process” those in lower class/steerage Medical check-up & asked series of questions

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Medical Inspection

If doctors found any indication of disease, he marked the shoulder or lapel of an immigrant’s clothing with chalk

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Deportation

Deportation: to send an immigrant back to their country of their origin

Deported due to serious diseases: trachoma, etc.

Deportation also of: “idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, epileptics, insane persons; …persons with chronic alcoholism”

QUARANTINE

Sometimes immigrants were “quarantined” (isolated to prevent the spread of disease)

Tuberculosis, small pox, measles, etc.

INTERVIEW

Took place after medical exam Name? Occupation? Who paid your fare? Can you read or write? How much money do you have? Have you been to prison or in a poorhouse? Where are you going? Do you have a job already?

Can You Draw a Diamond?

IS ENGLISH HARD TO LEARN?

CLOSER

You are a new immigrant who has just arrived at Ellis Island. What do you…

See? Hear? Feel?

(“Feel” meaning what do you feel emotionally?)