Immigration

Unit 6 Notes 3

Warm Ups1. Chief Sitting Bull is MOST known forA. leading the Fetterman Massacre in 1866.B. his role in the Battle of the Little Big Horn.C. defending his people at the massacre at

Wounded Knee.D. refusal to resist the increased presence of

whites in his territory.

2. ·Ghost Dance·Lakota Sioux·Big Foot·Col. James W. Forsyth

 These terms are all associated with what event

in 1890?A. Little Big HornB. Red Cloud's WarC. Promontory PointD. Wounded Knee Massacre

New Immigrants New Immigrants entered the United States at

Ellis Island, which is located in New York Harbor!

Where did the Immigrants mostly come from?

Eastern and Southern Europe! Immigrants didn’t speak much English and were usually very poor.

Poor immigrants had to pass strict tests, such as physical exams, literacy exams, and monetary interrogations.

Ellis Island

Big Cities These poor

immigrants moved to BIG CITIES, like New York and Chicago and worked as unskilled labor.

Side note: cities became known as CULTURALLY PLURAL (meaning many cultures)

Industrialization and Immigration caused the following problems: Urbanization: People moving into large cities, usually

causing over population!

Discrimination: Prejudice based on race … immigrant’s

received poor living arrangements and lower pay!

Urban Slums: Term given to parts of city that became over

populated, unsanitary, polluted and noisy!

Urban Slums

Finally there is a change!

Workers banded together to demand better pay and working conditions! These groups are called labor unions!

One of the most famous labor unions was the American Federation of Labor. It was led by a man named Samuel Gompers!

The goal of Samuel Gompers was … To improve unregulated working conditions – to

get better working conditions and higher wages by using strikes (work stoppages)

There were many strikes that turned into violent conflicts!

Cause Event and Info Effect

Poor Working conditions and company lowered wages!! Labor union staged a strike!!

PULLMAN STRIKE of 1894Pullman Railcar

Company located in Chicago

Company fires all that worked in the labor union. President of USA sends the US army to stop the violence!