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Immigration
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 _____
Germans • 1840• crop failures• political persecution
• Settled in the mid-west (farming) Wisconsin (breweries)
German Jews•1840• Jews seeking religious freedom
• Settled in cities – New York City Chicago, Philadelphia, etc.
CHINA
•1850-70• job opportunities in railroad
building and mining
• 1880s• economic freedom
ITALY, RUSSIA, SLAVIC COUNTRIES
Settled –Italians – NYCRussians – NorthSlavs – North & Mid-west
SICILY
• 1880 - 1890• overpopulation• economic freedom
Settled –
New York City, New
Orleans, coastal areas
RUSSIAN & E. EUROPEAN JEWS
• 1880 - 1900• relief from poverty,
persecution, pogroms
Settled – Cities
(mostly New York City)
Pogrom
Carried out in Eastern Europe and Russia. Organized massacres to kill or torment Jews.
Russian word for “riot”
Ellis Island
Ellis Island
Port of entry on the east coast –
over 16 million people (1 million a year – 5 thousand a day)
Landing on Ellis Island: The immigrants are brought in barges from the ships to the Island.
New arrivals from Ireland
Russian Jews
A Typical Italian Family
from Norway
Dutch Peasants: mother, son, daughter-in-law, grandchild.
Swedish girls on their way to Wisconsin
Russian family arrives in Dakota Territory
Slavic Women arrive
Just released, heading for NYC.
Ethnic Enclavesa.k.a. immigrant ghettoessections of cities in which
groups of immigrants lived, generally for social,
cultural, or economic reasons
Melting Pot
Salad Bowl
Melting Pot = Assimilation
“Americanization” – learn English, wear “American” fashion, “Fit In”
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-92
Ban on Chinese immigration
Angel Island
“Ellis Island of the West”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rredHTyKaQ
ELLIS ISLAND
Angel Island
Port of entry on the west coastProcessed over 1 million**slower process – sometimes monthsNo privacy – harsh conditions
Crowded ship docking at Angel Island
Japanese women waiting to disembark at Angel Island
View of Angel Island barracks from the dock
Chinese immigrants inSan Francisco’s “Chinatown”
Interrogation
Chinese poem carved on barracks wall at Angel Island
Black Migration
Great Migration• Southern blacks migrate north
–To find work–To escape racism