Immigration #2

The First Great Wave

Northern and Western Europe

•Fleeing starvation and bad governments

•Skilled works

•Germany and Ireland

The Second Great Wave

People came from Eastern and Southern Europe

•Immigrants were uneducated and unskilled

•They also spoke different languages and had different religions

•Crude (bad) conditions

•3rd class - Steerage

Ellis Island

Location in New York

Inspectors looking for diseases - immigrants waited in long lines

Could have been turned away

"The New Colossus"

Poem written by Emma Lazarus wrote a poem welcoming new immigrants - means "giant"

The Statue of Liberty

a sculpture in New York Harbor with a

Poem inscribed on the base:

"New Colossus" By Emma Lazarus

Poem welcoming the immigrants

Symbolized Freedom and Opportunity

The Great Hall Experience

Was a large room/building where immigrants were inspected

-Medical exam for Trachoma (Pink eye) and Fauves (Skin Fungus)

-Immigrants were asked 29 questions to check for consistency

Angel Island

in San Francisco Bay

Pull Factors

Reasons immigrants come to America:

Farms lands / crops

Better animals for survival

Family

Push Factors

Reasons immigrants leave:

Dangerous areas

Hard to find job

Force to leave

Starvation

Afford money

personification

nativists

Strong feelings against - Did not like immigrants (newcomers)

-wants laws banning immigration

-Languages and religions seemed strange

-Competed for jobs

Living Conditions of Immigrants

-Tenements: small apartments that were run-down and had very little privacy.

-Most diseases were found in tenements such as smallpox and tuberculosis

Immigrants Child Workers

Needed workers immediately

•1 child in every 5 between the ages 10 to 15 was employed as a full time workers in sweatshops

•2 million immigrants children were working

No safety equipment (helmets ,gloves, shoes ,hair nets)

•Breathing in hazardous fumes

•Exposed poison

•Operate large heavy machines

•dangers :illness, injuries , death , unsafe , conditions

•Small hands to reach into machinery / small places

Tenement

A room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments - usually overcrowded & poorly kept (a slum)

Steerage

The bottom of the boat

Xenophobia

Fear of foreigner or strangers

Assimilation

To absorb a group into the culture of a large population

Slum

A poor crowded run down neighborhood

Ethnic Neighborhood

Areas in which a people of similar ethnic backgrounds live together or near each other they may share similar traditions food culture language

Sweatshop

factory (clothing industry) where workers have very low wages for long hours under poor conditions and many health risks

Discrimination

treating people in a different way because of prejudice

emigration

leaving one country to live in another

persecute

to treat people harshly or really and deny their rights

port

a city with a harbor where ships can load and unload

immigrant

a person who moves into a country

Industrialization

conversion from manufacturing good by hand to manufacturing with machines

textile

fabric, or fabric type

blight

disease that affects crops

emigrant

person who moves from another country

freighter

a ship designed to carry cargo -not people

birds of passage

immigrants who returned to Europe after making money in US