Agenda

Reading Quiz

Do Now

Political Cartoons Analysis

Immigration in the 1900s Notes

Homework:

Finish Political Cartoon Paragraph Read Call it Sleep and answer the attached

questions

Do Now

Where do you trace your roots back to? How does your family’s history impact who you are today?

Think:

Hobbies/Interests Religion Traditions Family Structures

Political Cartoon Analysis

Look at the 11 political cartoons in pairs or groups

Fill in the chart based on

Textual evidence Visual evidence Prior knowledge

When you finish all 11 cartoons, answer the following question based on your analysis:

According to the different political cartoons, what were the common attitudes and feelings in regards to immigration in the United States? What were commonalities among anti-immigration sentiments? What were commonalities among pro-immigration sentiments? 

Immigration in the 1900s

December 15, 2014American History

Objectives

By the end of this lesson, I will be able to:

Identify immigrant’s countries of origin

Describe the journey immigrants endured and their experiences at United States immigration stations

Examine the causes and effects of the nativists’ anti-immigrant sentiments

The year is 1880. New York City’s swelling population has created a housing crises. Immigrant families crowd into apartments that lack light, ventilation, and sanitary facilities. Children have no where to play except the streets and are often kept our of school to work and help support their families. You are a reformer who wishes to help immigrants improve their lives…

Discussion: Turn and Talk

1. What would you do to improve conditions?

2. What skills do newcomers need to make it?

3. How might immigrants respond to help from an outsider?

4. How do you think you would react?

Why Did the Immigrants Come Here?

Between 1870 –1920 about 20 million Europeans immigrated to the U.S.

Escape religious persecution

Improve their economic situation Jobs

Birds of Passage

Experience greater freedom in the U.S.

Escape difficult conditions Famine

Land shortage

A Difficult Journey: Turn and Talk

What main issues do you think the immigrants faced when coming into the USA?

Which of these do you think would be most difficult for you if you were an immigrant?

How do you think they were treated?

What do you think was the overall American view on immigration at this time?

Similar or different from today?

Arrival at Ellis Island

Ellis Island Most European

immigrants to the U.S. arrived in New York and had to pass through the immigration located on Ellis Island in New York Harbor

Immigrants were carefully health screened and could only bring 100lbs of belongings

Passing Inspection

Officials at Ellis Island decided whether the immigrants could enter the country

Check for serious health problems

Document checks What do you think

the requirements for entering the country should have been?

Immigration Scene

Requirements for Admission?

Proving they had never been convicted of a felony?

Demonstrating that they were able to work

Showing that they had some money

At least $25 (1909 standard)

Exact Questions Used

1. What is your name?

2. Have you ever been to America before?

3. Do you have any relatives here? If the answer was yes, then asked where they lived.

4. Is there anyone who came to meet you at Ellis Island?

5. Who paid for your passage?

6. Do you have any money? (If the answer was “yes” then the immigrant was told to show it)

7. Do you have a job waiting for you in America?

8. Do you have a criminal record?

Edward Ferro: An Italian Immigrant

“The language was a problem of course, but it was overcome by the use of interpreters…It would happen sometimes that these interpreters – some of them – were really softhearted people and hated to see people being deported, and they would, at times, help the aliens by interpreting in such a manner as to benefit the alien and not the government.” (I Was Dreaming to Come to America)

Angel Island Not all immigrants

came through Ellis Island

Angel Island – Immigration station for the Asian immigrants arriving on the West Coast – San Francisco

Inspection process was more difficult than on Ellis Island

Filthy conditions

Harsh questioning

Cooperation For Survival

Think about finding…

A place to live

A job

Understanding the language and culture

Many immigrants settled in communities with other immigrants from the same country

Immigration Restrictions

America started to be called a MELTING POT Many cultures and

races had blended Many immigrants

refused to give up their culture

The Rise of Nativism

Some Americans didn’t like so many immigrants living in the U.S.

NATIVISM – preference for native-born Americans

Gave rise to anti-immigrant groups

Led to a demand for immigration restrictions

Anti-Asian Sentiment

Chinese immigrants worked for low wages

This took jobs from native born Americans

Labor groups pressured politicians to restrict Asian immigrations

Chinese Exclusion Act – 1882 Banned all but a few Chinese immigrants

Not lifted until 1943