1. Aim : What was life like for immigrants
living in cities during the IR?
• Do Now Review what is Ellis Island? Why
would immigrates stay with there own
culture?
• When Immigrants came to America who did
they live with and why? (Push/Pull factors)
• Was life easy or hard for them?( Explain your
answer and give examples
2. • New immigrants to America would live with
people of the same culture
• Russian with Russian
• Italians with Italians
• They worked in sweatshops – workplace
(factories) in long unhealthy working conditions
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4. Chinese Exclusion Act
• Banned Chinese people from immigrating to
the US for 10 years.
5. • Tenements –poorly
built, overcrowded
apartment buildings
• NYC lower East Side
• Russian (Jewish)
community
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9. Jocab Riis
• A journalist and photographer that became
famous for exposing the horrible conditions in
NYC tenements
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12. Help for Immigrants
• Settlement house- neighborhood center in
poor areas that offered education, recreation
and social activities
• The staff was all volunteers- in NYC
13. Jane Adams
• Jane Adams created-Hull House- settlement
home in Chicago
• English Classes
• Day Care
• Health Services
• Clubs (sports)
14. • After the county sees Riis pictures, NYC and
other cities reform it living conditions
• NYC also saw this as an opportunity to build
underground mass transit subways
15. • Why were African American also considered
immigrants if they already lived in the United
States?
16. Aim : What was life like for immigrants
living in cities during the IR?
• Review
• What were conditions like in tenements?
• Why do you think people lived in tenements?
• What is a settlement house?
• Why were African Americans also considered
immigrants if they already lived in the US?
17. HW
• What problems resulted from the rapid
growth of cities?
• Explain your answers clearly in complete
sentences in paragraph form
• Give at least two examples
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19. Aim: How did the IR and immigration
change America?
• Section 1 1-3 ALL
• Section 2 1-3 ALL
• Restate question - will be graded as a Quiz
