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

• 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

Chinese Exclusion Act

• Banned Chinese people from immigrating to the US for 10 years.

• Tenements –poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings

• NYC lower East Side

• Russian (Jewish) community

Jocab Riis

• A journalist and photographer that became famous for exposing the horrible conditions in NYC tenements

Help for Immigrants

• Settlement house- neighborhood center in poor areas that offered education, recreation and social activities

• The staff was all volunteers- in NYC

Jane Adams

• Jane Adams created-Hull House- settlement home in Chicago

• English Classes

• Day Care

• Health Services

• Clubs (sports)

• 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

• Why were African American also considered immigrants if they already lived in the United States?

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?

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

Aim: How did the IR and immigration change America?

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• Section 2 1-3 ALL

• Restate question - will be graded as a Quiz