Post on 15-Dec-2015
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4. During what years did the most immigrants come as a percentage of the population?
5. During what years did the most immigrants come in total?
6. How does immigration today compare to around 1900?
1. What region of the world did most immigrants come from around 1910?
2. What regions of the world do most immigrants come from now?
Why do people migrate?
What are the patterns of
assimilation?How do stereotypes
drive US immigration policy?
Coming to America
Vocab!Immigrant
Somebody who move to another countryEmigrant
Somebody who leaves from a countryEx. Leaving America
Push factorsWhy people leave
Pull factorsWhy people come to any given place
Push and Pull FactorsPush factor
What makes you LEAVE your country
Pull FactorWhy you CHOOSE
one place to move TO
Q1
Deprivation is poverty
1. According to this map, what is a major push factor for Mexicans wanting to come to the US?
2. What region of Mexico is most likely to immigrate?
Who Came?Africans
1619-1865Forced
Germans1848-1860’sEscape political
persecutionRevolution fails, all the
radicals come here (yay!)Chinese
1840’s-1850’sViolence, political
instabilityScandinavians (that’s me)
1850’s-1880’sOvercrowding, poverty
Irish1850’s-1880’sPotato famine and political
violence
Italians1890’s-1920’sPoverty; overcrowding, desire
for Chicago style pizza
E. EuropeansPolish
1900’s-1920’sRussians, Hungarians,
RomaniansViolence, poverty, instability
Mexican1900s, 1920s, 1950-now
Steady stream of English/Scottish over the years
Q2Link
What surprised you the most from this map?
Assimilation Cultural process of
assimilating one group into anotherUsually involves some
aspects of culture being adopted, and others being lost
For large immigrant groups, America adopts some of their customs, while others not
vs
Assimilation1st generation, new immigrant
Keeps most aspects of mother culture
Lives in “ethnic” neighborhood called a ghetto
2nd generation, first born citizensIn between two worldsRaised by 1st gen, raised in new
country3rd generation
Revolts against “old” waysStrives to be “American”
Moves out of “ethnic” neighborhood
4th generationEither gets back to “roots” or stays
Americanized5th generation stays Americanized
Assimilation has the same story
During WWI and WWII German immigrants did this in order to appear more assimilated
StereotypesFirst Irish and
German immigrants Depicted as
DrunksCommonly
depicted as fighting and drinking
Stupid, but harmless
How is this similar to the way that Freedmen were shown?
Fear of OutsidersFear of political
radicals GermanyIrelandRussia
Anarchists and Communists
Come to destroy America
Image of poor as subhuman
They’ll take our jobsThey’ll drive down
wages
Anti-Immigrant LawsChinese Exclusion Act 1882
Banned Chinese immigration
Whites saw as competitionWork for cheaper
Gentleman's Agreement in 1907 for JapaneseJapan wouldn’t allow
emigrationUS wouldn’t ban it
Immigration Act 1924Quotas on Immigration2% population of a group
already living in US 1890 could immigrate every yearIf 2,000,000 Germans in 1890,
then 40,000/year
1900-200,000 Italians/year
1924- 4,000/year