Chapter 26The Great Wave of Immigration

C26.3 Italian Immigrants

Journey Details came to escape

poverty came for jobs came by ship,

steerage class arrived at Ellis

Island, NY inspected some sent back to

Italy

Life in America did construction work cleaned streets some back & forth to

Italy settled in “Little Italy”

neighborhoods lived in tenements celebrated Italian &

Catholic holidays looked down on by

Americans; sterotyped as criminals

C26.4 Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe

Journey details came to escape persecution

came for religious freedom

came by ship; steerage class, faced seasickness

inspected at Ellis Island

Life in America started shops, newspapers, schools, synagogues

lived in tenements worked as street

vendors, craftsmen half worked in

garment factories valued education;

sent kids to school faced prejudice &

discrimination

C26.5 Chinese Immigrants

Journey details first came for gold later to work, make

money, return to China came by ship,

expensive arrived at Angel Island,

SF Bay 10% sent back “paper relatives”

helped some get in after Chinese Exclusion Act

Life in America built railroads started laundries worked in restaurants

and stores lived in Chinatowns mostly men not allowed to live in

most neighborhoods Exclusion Act 1882

banned new Chinese immigrants & citizenship

C26.6 Mexican Immigrants

Journey Details came to escape civil war and revolution

some walked some used burros &

carts others took train didn’t need

passports or money

Life in America worked on railroads, farms, ranches

worked in mines, factories, canneries

hard work, low pay moved often for

farm work; lived in camps

some lived in barrios of cities

faced prejudice and discrimination

C26.7 Closing the Door on Immigration

Nativism anti-immigrant feeling

blamed immigrants for everything that was wrong crime hard times lack of jobs

Restricting Immigration

1882 – no Chinese 1907 – no Japanese 1917 – immigrants

must prove literacy 1921 – Quota

system