Do Now

4. During what years did the most immigrants come as a percentage of the population?

5. During what years did the most immigrants come in total?

6. How does immigration today compare to around 1900?

1. What region of the world did most immigrants come from around 1910?

2. What regions of the world do most immigrants come from now?

A history of immigrant phobia

We’re all immigrants. Well, the majority of us

If only we were so lucky…

Why do people migrate?

What are the patterns of

assimilation?How do stereotypes

drive US immigration policy?

Coming to America

Vocab!Immigrant

Somebody who move to another countryEmigrant

Somebody who leaves from a countryEx. Leaving America

Push factorsWhy people leave

Pull factorsWhy people come to any given place

Push and Pull FactorsPush factor

What makes you LEAVE your country

Pull FactorWhy you CHOOSE

one place to move TO

Q1

Deprivation is poverty

1. According to this map, what is a major push factor for Mexicans wanting to come to the US?

2. What region of Mexico is most likely to immigrate?

America as a Refuge

Who Came?Africans

1619-1865Forced

Germans1848-1860’sEscape political

persecutionRevolution fails, all the

radicals come here (yay!)Chinese

1840’s-1850’sViolence, political

instabilityScandinavians (that’s me)

1850’s-1880’sOvercrowding, poverty

Irish1850’s-1880’sPotato famine and political

violence

Italians1890’s-1920’sPoverty; overcrowding, desire

for Chicago style pizza

E. EuropeansPolish

1900’s-1920’sRussians, Hungarians,

RomaniansViolence, poverty, instability

Mexican1900s, 1920s, 1950-now

Steady stream of English/Scottish over the years

Q2Link

What surprised you the most from this map?

Assimilation Cultural process of

assimilating one group into anotherUsually involves some

aspects of culture being adopted, and others being lost

For large immigrant groups, America adopts some of their customs, while others not

vs

Assimilation1st generation, new immigrant

Keeps most aspects of mother culture

Lives in “ethnic” neighborhood called a ghetto

2nd generation, first born citizensIn between two worldsRaised by 1st gen, raised in new

country3rd generation

Revolts against “old” waysStrives to be “American”

Moves out of “ethnic” neighborhood

4th generationEither gets back to “roots” or stays

Americanized5th generation stays Americanized

Assimilation has the same story

During WWI and WWII German immigrants did this in order to appear more assimilated

Resistance to Immigration

StereotypesFirst Irish and

German immigrants Depicted as

DrunksCommonly

depicted as fighting and drinking

Stupid, but harmless

How is this similar to the way that Freedmen were shown?

Evolution of Stereotypes

Irish were seen as the lowest of W. Europe

Anti -Catholic

Belief that Catholics follow the Pope’s orders; not the government’s

Fear of OutsidersFear of political

radicals GermanyIrelandRussia

Anarchists and Communists

Come to destroy America

Image of poor as subhuman

They’ll take our jobsThey’ll drive down

wages

Same story, different century

Anti-Immigrant LawsChinese Exclusion Act 1882

Banned Chinese immigration

Whites saw as competitionWork for cheaper

Gentleman's Agreement in 1907 for JapaneseJapan wouldn’t allow

emigrationUS wouldn’t ban it

Immigration Act 1924Quotas on Immigration2% population of a group

already living in US 1890 could immigrate every yearIf 2,000,000 Germans in 1890,

then 40,000/year

1900-200,000 Italians/year

1924- 4,000/year

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