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?