1. Discuss how the New Immigrants differed from the Old Immigrants.

2. Explain what life was like for the immigrants3. How they immigrants were helped and by whom.

4. The nativist response

Determine if your slip is a PUSH factor (makes you want to leave your current area)

or a PULL factor (makes you want to move into a new area).

Create a who wanted but so chart for

CarnegieRockefellerReformers

Copy HWRead about your assigned groups and note

what life was like in the cities in the late 1800s:Upper class 473Middle Class 474-475Lower Class 475

HW QuestionsWhat changes occurred in immigration in the

late 1800s?What fueled the 2nd Industrial Revolution in

America?What organizational methods did

businesspeople use to increase their profits in the late 1800s?

What was the Great Compromise?

Compare/Share HWWhy did Congress pass the Sherman Anti-

trust Act in 1890?What was the Homestead Act?What were the Civil War Amendments and

what did each do?What rights are guaranteed by the 6th

amendment?

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her nameMother of Exiles. From her beacon-handGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes commandThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame."Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries sheWith silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Emma Lazarus

 

ImmigrantsOld (1800-1880) New (1880-1920)Protestants

Northern and Western Europe (GB, Ireland, Germany, Scandinavian)

Many skilled laborers

Roman Catholic, Jewish, Orthodox

Southern and Eastern Europe (Italians, Greeks, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Romanians)

Many unskilled laborers

Life for the New ImmigrantEthnic NeighborhoodsManual Labor

Poles/Italians men= constructionEastern European men= mines/steel millsJewish men and women/Italian women -

garment businessPoor WagesLong Hours (up to 15 hours a day)Tenement Housing

Help for the New ImmigrantEthnic Neighborhoods –

lived with those who had a similar culture

Churches and Synagogues – kept cultural identity

Foreign Language Newspapers – could be read in native language

Help ContinuedBenevolent Societies = Usually privately

supported organizationsLoansInsurance PoliciesHelp finding apartments/jobs

Help continuedPolitical Bosses (powerful pol. Party leaders)

Helped Immigrants gain jobs/citizenship (Americanization) in exchange for vote

Ex – Boss Tweed – Tammany Hall/NYC Mayor “stole” $200 million through “kickbacks”

Nativist ResponseOpposed to immigrants for

social and economic reasonsCA –Chinese forbidden to

own property1882 – Chinese Exclusion

Act –denied citizenship to those born in China and prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers

Immigration Restriction League Wanted a all

immigrants to take a literacy test

Congress passed Pres. Cleveland

vetoed

ClosureCurrent Immigration

Who are the bulk of our immigrants?Evaluate their impact on America.