1. Chapter 15:Immigrants and Urbanization

2. Four immigrants and their belongings, on a dock, looking out over the water. (view from Ellis Island, 1912)

3. Immigrants arrive in New York in 1850. Millions of people immigrated to the United States during the last half of the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s.

4. Arriving in New York An ocean steamer carries immigrants past the Statue of Liberty A gift from the French, the Statue of Liberty came to symbolize the freedom and hope of America [Library of Congress]

5. Arrival of Immigrants 1892 - 1954 What do these images tell you about the immigrants? What impressions do you have about the people in these pictures? What happens after they land in America?

7. England, Ireland, Germany and Scandinavian countries

8. Beginning in the 1890s, increasing numbers came from southern and eastern Europe

10. Rising population (made land for farming scarce)

11. Farmers competed with laborers for jobs

14. Less opportunities in China to make money

15. Railroads, farming, mining, domestic service, some started businesses

17. When Hawaii became a U.S. territory in 1898, Japanese began immigrating to the West Coast

19. Job scarce in their homeland, and plentiful in the U.S.

20. During 20-yr. period in the early 1900s, 7% of Mexico’s population came to the U.S.

21. Worked in the new farmland in the Western states

23. Many traveled in steerage, the cheapest accommodations in the lower decks

25. Immigrants had to pass a physical exam, and diseased individuals were sent homePassing the Medical Inspection at Ellis Island (Video Clip)

27. Made sure the immigrant would be able to work

30. Shared values/culture

31. Pooled resources for churches/synagogues.

32. Spoke same language

34. Nativism

36. Immigration Restriction League - objected to immigrants from the “wrong” countries (Latin, Slav, Asian groups)

39. Passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act by Congress in 1882

41. President Theodore Roosevelt created the Gentlemen’s Agreement in 1907