Day 38 New Immigration

• Homework: 254-259

New European Immigrants• 1870-1890 20 million

Europeans (Largest movement of people in the history of the World)

• Southern and Eastern Europe (Jews, Poles, Czech, Russian, Italian…)

• Most fleeing poverty• In Poland and Russia

large numbers of Jews were fleeing persecution

• 3 million Armenians due to Genocide in Ottoman Empire

Asian Immigration

• After Gold Rush many Chinese and Japanese begin to arrive

• 1882 Chinese Exclusion act 1907 Japanese Exclusion

• 1885 White miners riot because Chinese laborers are used to break a strike (30 killed)

• Gentleman's Agreement• 1880-1920 West Indies

and Mexico

Journey

• 1 week Atlantic 3 week Pacific

• Steerage• Ellis Island and Angel

Islands• Ethnic Enclaves• Process of

Assimilation• Greeted by “Nativist”

Summary Questions

1) What group was excluded from new immigration?2) This was an agreement that ended segregation of

Japanese and limited immigration of unskilled laborers?

3) This was the concept that led to anti immigrant sentiment

4) The Term used to describe the “blending” of cultures that resulted in the loss of language and cultures

5) Where did the vast majority of European Immigrants arrive on the East Coast.

6) Through which location did the Vast majority of Asian Immigrants arrive?

Reading

• Becoming a Peddler

• Standard Oil Monopoly

• An Ethnic Geography of New York

• Transcontinental Newsboy

• In Praise of Public Education