Urban America
Sunday, March 1, 2009

Did You Know?
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Did You Know?
The ancestors of almost 1/2 of all the
people living in the United States
today passed through Ellis Island as
immigrants.
Sunday, March 1, 2009

Did You Know?
The ancestors of almost 1/2 of all the
people living in the United States
today passed through Ellis Island as
immigrants.
Today Ellis Island is open to the
public. It contains the Ellis Island
Immigration Museum.
Sunday, March 1, 2009

Section 1 Immigration
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Section 1 Immigration
Europeans Flood into
the United States
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Of the 14 million immigrants who arrived
between 1860-1900, many were Jews.
America offered immigrants employment,
few restrictions, a way to avoid military
service, religious freedom and a chance to
move up the social ladder.
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Most immigrants took the trip to America in
steerage. (the least expensive accommodations
on a steamship) It was a 14 day trip that usually
ended at Ellis Island,
Ellis Island, a small island in the New York
Harbor.
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Most immigrants passed through Ellis
Island in a day.
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Most immigrants passed through Ellis
Island in a day.
Some were separated from the family and
sent back to Europe due to health
problems.
Sunday, March 1, 2009

Most immigrants passed through Ellis
Island in a day.
Some were separated from the family and
sent back to Europe due to health
problems.
Immigrants settled into cities with
neighborhoods separated into ethnic
groups.
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Most immigrants passed through Ellis
Island in a day.
Some were separated from the family and
sent back to Europe due to health
problems.
Immigrants settled into cities with
neighborhoods separated into ethnic
groups.
Within these neighborhoods they
practiced their own religions & spoke their
own languages.
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Immigrants who learned English adjusted
well to the United States.
ASIAN IMMIGRATION
China suffered poverty and famine, so
many Chinese immigrants came to the
U.S. in the mid 1800s.
In the West, they worked as laborers,
servants ect.
Many opened up their own laundries.
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Japanese immigration increased between
1900 and 1919.
In 1910, a barracks was opened on Angel
Island in California.
Asian immigrants waited here for
immigration hearings.
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Nativism
Immigration led to Nativism, an extreme dislike
to foreigners by the people who were born in
America.
They tried to limit immigration
In the 1800s they were against the Irish
In the 1900s they were against Asians, Jews &
anyone from Eastern Europe.
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Two anti-immigration groups formed.
The American Protective Association had
500,000 members.
Henry Bowers started the American Protective
Association & he hated catholics and
foreigners.
Denis Kearny, an Irish immigrant, started the
Workingman’s Party of California.
The Workingman’s Party wanted to stop
Chinese immigrants & racial violence resulted.
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In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese
Exclusion Act.
It barred Chinese immigration for 10
years.
It prevented the Chinese who were
already in America from becoming
citizens.
This act was not repealed until 1943.
Sunday, March 1, 2009

Section 2: Urbanization
Did You know that the subway from
New Jersey to New York City travels
two rivers into Long Island?
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Americans Migrate to the Cities
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Americans Migrate to the Cities
Immigrants remained in the cities
where they worked long hours for little
pay.
Farmers began moving to cities hoping
to find better paying jobs, running
water, indoor plumbing, electricity &
entertainment.
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As the price of land increased, building
owners began to build up instead of out.
Skyscrapers designed by Louis Sullivan
began to be constructed.
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Development of Mass Transit
electric trolley cars, elevated railroads
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Definite boundaries existed between the
wealthy, middle class and the working class
people.
Wealthy people lived in the heart of the city
in elaborate homes.
The middle class (doctors, lawyers, teachers)
lived away from the city.
Poor people lived in the city in tenements.
Tenements were dark crowded multi-family
apartments.
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Urban Problems
Crime
Fire
Disease
Pollution
From 1880-1900 there was a huge
increase in the murder rate
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Americans blamed immigrants for the increase
in the murder rate.
Alcohol contributed to the crime rate late in
the 1800s.
Contaminated water from improper sewage
disposal resulted in epidemics of typhoid fever
and cholera.
Sunday, March 1, 2009

Urban Politics
Party Bosses ran the political machines
George Plunket, an Irish immigrant, was
one of New York City’s most powerful
Party Bosses.
Politicians got rich due to fraud or graft-
getting money through dishonest means.
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Tammany Hall had a
party boss named
William Tweed. He was
sent to prison in 1872
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Tammany Hall
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William Tweed
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