Standard 11.2.3

Standard 11.2.3

• Trace the effect of the Americanization movement.

• Essential Questions: How did the United States attempt to limit the influx of immigrants?

So what “I” word is in America’s future?

Immigration

• New Immigration– Immigrants in the first half of the 1800s came

from Northern Europe• German, English, French, Dutch, Irish

– In the late 1800s/early 1900s immigrants mostly came from Southern and Eastern Europe

• Jewish, Polish, Italian, Greek, Russian

– they fled persecution and poverty hoping to find freedom and work

Number of Immigrants 1820-1993

The Statue of Liberty

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With 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-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

-“The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus, 1883

Immigration

• Settlement Houses– Jane Addams set up Hull House in Chicago to help

immigrants adjust to America– she got people to donate time and money to help the

poor– she provide day care, public baths, job training, and

language lessons• she won the Nobel Prize in 1931

Social Gospel Movement

– applied Christian beliefs to solve social problems

• targeted poverty, inequality, liquor, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, poor schools, and the danger of war

– included groups like the YMCA and the Salvation Army

• the YMCA (James Naismath) invented basketball in 1891

Mormonism

• Joseph Smith = Prophet

• Established in 1830

• Extermination Order by Ohio’s Governor Boggs

• Latter Day Saints (Mormons) were forced West

• Settled in Utah

Nativism• Prejudicial reaction to the large wave of immigrants coming

to the US• wanted to limit (set quotas) or stop the immigration of non-

white, non-protestant people

• Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882– banned Chinese immigration and blocked Chinese from becoming

US citizens until 1943

• American Protective Association, 1887– tried to limit Catholic immigration into the US– also tried to ban Catholics from teaching in public schools or holding

office