the transformation of american society ch 7 section 1
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The Transformation of American Society
CH 7 Section 1
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The Lure of America
• From 1800 to 1880 more than 10 million immigrants came to the US (old immigrants)
• The new immigrants came between 1891 and 1910, 12 million immigrants
• 60% of the people living in the 12 largest cities were foreign or had foreign parents
• 70% were from southern or Eastern Europe
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Some of the countries represented
• Czech • Greek• Hungarian• Italian• Polish• Russian • Slovack
• Arabs• Armenians • Chinese• French Canadians• Japanese
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• They came to escape poverty or persecution
• They also came seeking economic opportunity
• Some were tricked by the railroads offering jobs and land
• Steamships offered low fares to get more people to come over
• {Steerage The poorest accommodations located on the lower levels below deck is how most traveled}
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Ellis Island
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{Ellis Island
• This is the first soil that immigrants coming into New York set foot on}
• It opened in 1892
• To get to it the immigrants passed the Statue of Liberty
• All those with serious mental problems or disease were deported
• All those with criminal backgrounds or no way to support themselves were sent back
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A New Life• Most immigrants were forced into low
paying jobs in the poorest neighborhoods and slums
• They would settle into immigrant communities where most spoke the same language
• They were encouraged to join the American mainstream which was often done by their children
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Inner city Slum
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The Nativist Response
• They saw the immigrants as a threat
• They saw them as too different to fit in
• They were blamed for crime, poverty and violence
• They thought they stole the money from native born Americans because the worked for so cheap
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Chinese Exclusion
• {The new Workingmen’s party of California headed by Denis Kearney
• They encouraged Anti-Chinese sentiments}
• This led to mobs attacking Chinese killing some and burning the property of others
• Most Chinese came in thorough California Why?
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Angel Island
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The Chinese Exclusion Act
• Passed by congress in 1882 in California
• It denied citizenship to those born in China
• It prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers
• Neither the Chinese Exclusion Act or the violence kept out Chinese immigrants
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Immigration Restriction League
• {Sought to impose a literacy test on all immigrants}
• A measure was passed by congress but vetoed by President Cleveland
• Despite the Nativist arguments the immigration had a positive effect
• Rapid industrialization would have been impossible without them
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Review
• What is Steerage?
• The Workingmen's party were anti who?
• What did the Immigration Restriction League want?
• What was the first land that most New York immigrants stepped on?
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The End