Immigration. IRELAND 1845-1860 Potato famine Settled in – New York City, *Boston, *Chicago –...

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Immigration

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IRELAND•1845-1860•Potato famineSettled in – New York City, *Boston, *Chicago – *became political powersmoved across the country *worked for the Transcontinental Railroad Union Pacific – from _____ to _____ to _____

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Germans • 1840• crop failures• political persecution

• Settled in the mid-west (farming) Wisconsin (breweries)

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German Jews•1840• Jews seeking religious freedom

• Settled in cities – New York City Chicago, Philadelphia, etc.

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CHINA

•1850-70• job opportunities in railroad

building and mining

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• 1880s• economic freedom

ITALY, RUSSIA, SLAVIC COUNTRIES

Settled –Italians – NYCRussians – NorthSlavs – North & Mid-west

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SICILY

• 1880 - 1890• overpopulation• economic freedom

Settled –

New York City, New

Orleans, coastal areas

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RUSSIAN & E. EUROPEAN JEWS

• 1880 - 1900• relief from poverty,

persecution, pogroms

Settled – Cities

(mostly New York City)

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Pogrom

Carried out in Eastern Europe and Russia. Organized massacres to kill or torment Jews.

Russian word for “riot”

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Ellis Island

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Ellis Island

Port of entry on the east coast –

over 16 million people (1 million a year – 5 thousand a day)

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Landing on Ellis Island: The immigrants are brought in barges from the ships to the Island.

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New arrivals from Ireland

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Russian Jews

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A Typical Italian Family

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from Norway

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Dutch Peasants: mother, son, daughter-in-law, grandchild.

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Swedish girls on their way to Wisconsin

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Russian family arrives in Dakota Territory

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Slavic Women arrive

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Just released, heading for NYC.

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Ethnic Enclavesa.k.a. immigrant ghettoessections of cities in which

groups of immigrants lived, generally for social,

cultural, or economic reasons

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Melting Pot

Salad Bowl

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Melting Pot = Assimilation

“Americanization” – learn English, wear “American” fashion, “Fit In”

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Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-92

Ban on Chinese immigration

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Angel Island

“Ellis Island of the West”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rredHTyKaQ

ELLIS ISLAND

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Angel Island

Port of entry on the west coastProcessed over 1 million**slower process – sometimes monthsNo privacy – harsh conditions

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Crowded ship docking at Angel Island

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Japanese women waiting to disembark at Angel Island

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View of Angel Island barracks from the dock

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Chinese immigrants inSan Francisco’s “Chinatown”

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Interrogation

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Chinese poem carved on barracks wall at Angel Island

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Black Migration

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Great Migration• Southern blacks migrate north

–To find work–To escape racism