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Immigration
SS Grade 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Castle Garden/Castle Clinton | received immigrants from 1820-1890 |
| “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free ...” | Statue of Liberty quote |
| What was the Statue of Liberty a sign of? | freedom |
| Where did most immigrants stay on the ship when they traveled to the US? | steerage |
| Describe the conditions immigrants faced when traveling. | crowded, disease, no windows |
| What was Ellis Island called? | Gateway to America |
| Where is Ellis Island? | NY Harbor |
| What happened at Ellis Island? | medical inspection, registration, many changed names, European immigrants |
| Who mostly came through Angel Island? | west coast- Asian immigrants |
| Immigrants BEFORE 1885 | spoke English, Protestant, Northern and Western Europe |
| Immigrants AFTER 1885 | did not speak English, Southern and Eastern Europe |
| Why did Russians immigrate? | religious persucution |
| What were the results of immigrants? | ethnic neighborhoods, tenements, slums, spoke own language, religious |
| assimilation | blend cultures and American way of life |
| Melting Pot | Belief that the American Culture is a blend of many different cultures |
| naivest | want to limit immigration to White Anglo -Saxon Protestant |
| Xenophobia | fear of foreigners |
| Why did people not want immigrants? | people fear losing jobs and languages, religion, traditions would have a negative impact on society |
| Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 | no Chinese laborer could enter country or re-enter once left-repealed 1943 |
| Who do immigration laws favor? | Northern and Western Europeans |
| Gentlemen’s Agreement- 1907 | limit Japanese |
| Literacy Tests- 1917 | limits only those that pass |
| Emergency Quota Act- 1921 | favored Northern and Western Europeans |
| National Origins Act-1924 | favored Northern and Western Europeans |
| National Origins Act- 1929 | limited immigration to 150,000 per year |
| urbanization | people moved from farms to the cities |
| Why did people move to cities? | availability of jobs/ Better life- more amenities- electricity, plumbing |
| tenements | small apartments- few windows, little heat or indoor plumbing in individual |
| Where did the middle class live? | on the outside of cities- wealthy class- mansions on Fifth Avenue, Chicago lake front |
| Describe the cities. | crowded slums filled with crime and poor conditions. |
| What problems faced cities? | Disease Garbage- in the streets Fires Crime |
| What were some solutions to the problems in the cities? | trash collectors • building codes- fire escapes • professional fire/police • water system installed |
| Hull House | a settlement house that helped the poor |
| How did the Hull House help? | -provided day nurseries for mothers who worked –organized sports/ theater –taught English to immigrants |
| Where else could people turn for help? | religious organizations |
| What did the middle class do? | Joined clubs and societies (cultural groups) |
| Central Park | a place for people to relax and unwind |
| first Transportation that was too slow | horse and buggies |
| Solution to Horse and buggies | Trolley cars (first form of mass transit) |
| Brooklyn Bridge (1883) | connected Manhattan to Brooklyn |
| skyscrapers | Building upward/saved space made of steel, cement and brick, elevators |
| Flat Iron Building (1902) | thought to be the ground breaking for modern skyscrapers |
| sewers | developed to deal with the waste problem |
| subways (1904) and elevated trains | built above and below ground to save space |
| RH Macys | first department store |
| Joseph Pulitzer | comic strips in NY World |
| William Randolph Hearst- | •NY Journal- wrote about scandals and crimes, called “Yellow Journalism" |
| Nellie Bly | helped with treatment of the mentally ill |
| Baseball | 1840s, but later with professional teams Cuban Giants of LI (first team) |
| Football | no helmets, many injuries |
| vaudeville | variety shows-comedians, song and dance, acrobats |
| How was education different for immigrants? | Learned English and rights and duties of a citizen |
| What reading material was available? | Specialty Magazines, Dime Novels |
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