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/19

Sentence Correction: jim abbott

was born on september 19 1967, in

flint michigan he was born without a

right hand but became a major league

baseball pitcher he also won a gold

medal in the 1988 olumpics, pitching

for team usa. Journal: Reflect on the flood. How did

it affect you or someone you know?

How did it affect Colorado?

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up 9

/23/1

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Sentence: on september 23

1846 johann galle discovered the planet

neptune it is the eight planet

from the sun and takes 165

years two revolve around the

sun Journal: What was life like for

immigrants coming through

Ellis Island?

Immigration

Immigration

“Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddles 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!”

-Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus,” 1883.

Push

and P

ull

Fact

ors Push factors:

Problems that cause

people to move. Pull factors:

Attractions that draw

them to another place.

Contr

act

La

bore

rs

Immigrants who had

signed contracts to work for U.S. employers (before

getting to America).

“Here was a congestion the like of which I had never seen before. Within the narrow limits of one-half square mile were crowded together thirty-five thousand people, living tier upton tier, huddles together until the very heavens seemed to be shut out. These narrow alley-like streets of Old Boston were one mass of litter. The air was laden with soot and dirt. Ill odors arose from every direction… A thousand wheels of commercial activity whirled incessantly day and night, making noises which would rack the sturdiest of nerves.”

How did Americans respond to new Immigrants?

Sett

lem

ent

House

Community center which provided services to the poor,

especially immigrants!

Am

eri

caniz

ati

on

& N

ati

vism

Americanization: Assimilation of immigrants into American society and

way of life! Nativism: Favoring the interest of native-

born Americans over

interests of immigrants.

Immigration from Asia -The Exclusion Act Chinese blamed for economic problems.

Chinese seen as inferior who could never be Americanized.

Chinese Exclusion Act Prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers,

skilled or unskilled for a period of 10 years!

Prevented Chinese already in country from becoming citizens.

Still allowed some Chinese to enter

Imm

igra

tion

from

Asi

a Angel Island

Immigration Station – “Ellis Island of the West” Designed to enforce

exclusion act.

Going through could take days!

Some immigrants detained for months or years!

“Imprisoned in the wooden building day after day, My freedom withheld; how can I bear to talk about it?”

Imm

igra

tion

from

Asi

a Asian immigrants faced prejudice, hostility, and discrimination.

Asian children separated from whites in schools. Japans government protested.

Roosevelt intervenes.

Gentlemen’s Agreement Japan agreed not to allow

laborers to emigrate to U.S. EXCEPT wives, children and parents of those already there

Immigration from Mexico

Moved to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.

Higher wages!

Some worked on rail roads and farms.

Mexican Revolution pushed more across the border.

Imm

igra

tion

from

Canada

French Canadians Settled in New

England and around the Great Lakes.

Worked in textile mills

and lumber camps. Resisted Americanization

Why

is im

mig

rati

on

an im

port

ant

part

of

our

his

tory

? Helped to populate the

U.S. Shaped our history and culture. Helped build our

country.