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1. England had no toleration for different religions.
2. Left because of political strife and war.3. No jobs, limited land, debtors, creditors4. People who had no money; worked 4-7
years to pay off debt5. Not considered immigrants because
they were forced here.
1. Northern and Western Europe (Germany, France, England, Ireland)
2. Asia (China and Japan)3. French and Mexican (lands from
Manifest Destiny)4. African slaves
Push-Pull Theory Things that were pushing people out of
Europe and things that were drawing them to America.
1. Overpopulation and land shortages2. Killing of Jews in Russia and Eastern
Europe3. War draft laws4. Lack of economic opportunity
1. Peaceful2. Cheap Land3. Need for workers4. Religious freedom, liberty and tradition
of democracy5. Letters from friends and relatives in
America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bC07e7PReM
1. Needed workers for factories and mines2. Settled and formed the west3. Purchase the products of industry and
agriculture4. Served to increase the nations military
power5. Immigrants who had certain talents that
were desired in the US6. Was tradition of US being a haven for the
oppressed.
Southern & Eastern Europe
1. Settled in Mid-West and Great Plains2. Built canals, railroads (Irish)3. Poles & Slavs worked the mines,
Germans built chemical industry4. Increased demand for goods thereby
encouraging industrial growth
1. Tenements (ghettos)2. Vote
1. Ocean
2. Discrimination
Assimilation› Leaving your culture behind and assuming
the prevailing culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubT-Bm36L2U
Frontier Expanding Southern & Eastern Physically & Mentally Belief your culture is superior “Know-Nothing”
All cultures blend together and mix and the product is a new American culture
Immigrants leave their culture behind and adapt to the American culture
Different cultures coexisting, but able to identify with their specific culture
President could deport anyone seen as a threat; couldn’t write anything negative about the government
Banned Chinese immigrants for 10 years
Japan will not allow people to come to U.S. in exchange for U.S. to end discrimination in San Francisco
AKA Literacy Act Were required to read or write English
or another foreign language
After WWI, no more than 2% of the # from that country who were in the U.S. in 1918
Established 156,000 as # of immigrants who could enter the U.S.
They Came From Many Lands Below is a breakdown by country of the number of immigrants who passed through Ellis Island from January 1892 to June 1897, and from 1901 to 1931. Exceptions to those years have been noted in parentheses.
Country Number of Immigrants
Italy 2,502,310
Russia 1,893,542
Hungary (1905-1931) 859,557
Austria (1905-1931) 768,132
Austria-Hungary (1892-1904) 648,163
Germany 633,148
England 551,969
Ireland 520,904
Sweden 348,036
Greece 245,058
Norway 226,278
Ottoman Empire 212,825
Scotland 191,023
The West Indies 171,774
Poland (1892-1897 and 1920-1931) 153,444
Portugal 120,725
France (including Corsica) 109,687
Denmark 99,414
Romania (1894-1931) 79,092
The Netherlands 78,602
Spain 72,636
Belgium 63,141
Czechoslovakia (1920-1931) 48,140
Bulgaria (1901-1931) 42,085
Wales 27,113
Yugoslavia (1920-1931) 25,017
Finland (1920-1931) 7,833
Switzerland 1,103
Immigrants came from all over but most of them had one thing in common: they entered into this country through Ellis Island.
The following are pictures taken at Ellis Island at various times around the turn of the 20th Century.
My Great-great Grandparents Sophie & Piortr Grzbowski, seated and standing on the left-hand side.
John Getz & Anna Bialkowski Getz
My Grandfather’s mother’s parents on my mother’s side.
My Great-great Grandparents.
From left: Rachel, Michael, Mary, Concietta, Matteo, Michael, Ringo & Rose Palma
Mexico Philippines, Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam,
and India
Economic opportunity still remains the #1 reason for immigration to the U.S.
Education Recruited to fill jobs in the U.S. for
which specialized skills are required (engineering & medicine fields)
Political & religious asylum
Discrimination & prejudice Increased call to tighten immigration
laws Crack down on illegal immigration at
U.S./Mexico border
New ideas and culture Growing political influence (especially
in the South)
Can you guess these famous immigrants and where they are from?