2.1 – SOCIETAL ISSUES &

IMMIGRATION

UNIT 2 – PROGRESSIVE

MOVEMENT

SECTION 1 - INTRODUCTION

1890s – 1920s

The Students Will Be Able To (TSWBAT):

Analyze the major problems from the Gilded Age leading to the Progressive Era

Identify push factors and pull factors leading to immigration

Evaluate the effects of immigration on urbanization

Learning Targets & Key Words

Key Words:

Immigration

Progressivism

Nativism

Corruption

Discrimination

EQ: What major problems

from the Gilded Age led to the

Progressive Era? What major

effects did the increase in

immigration have on American

society?

Discussion: Introduction to the

Progressive Era

What does the word ‘progressive’ mean?

What changes are we going to see?

What were the problems of the Gilded Age?

Wealth disparity, workers rights, working conditions, poverty in cities, racial discrimination, big business, corruption, social justice, racial discriminationHow can they be fixed?

Progressivism

Movement based on the idea that new ideas and honest, efficient gov’t could bring about social justice

1. INTRO. TO PROGRESSIVE

ERA

Progressivi

sm1890s-1920s

Reforms

(economic,

political,

social, moral)

AlcoholChild

Labor/

Sweatshop

s

Immigratio

n

Food and

Drug

Regulations

Government

Corruption

Trust-busting

Women

work for

better

rights

Discriminatio

n

President

Theodore

Roosevelt(1901-1909)

President

Woodrow

Wilson(1913-1921)

African

Americans

Native Americans,

Asian Americans,

Mexican

Americans

Working

Women

Suffrage 19th

Amendment

Square Deal

New Nationalism

New Freedom

Federal Reserve

Act

II. IMMIGRATION IN THE

PROGRESSIVE ERA

Immigration Today

Why do people immigrate to the

U.S. today?

Where are they coming from?

Reasons for Immigration

Push FactorsThings that make you LEAVE a place

Examples?

Pull FactorsThings that make you want to GO TO a

place

Examples?

Why Immigrants Came…

War – Push or Pull?

Famine – Push or Pull?

Political and religious persecution – Push or Pull?

Land shortages and crowding – Push or Pull?

Freedom & the “American Dream” – Push or Pull?

Between 1866 to 1915, 25 million immigrants arrived in the United States.

Jobs as Pull Factors

Urban Frontier

1900 American cities

Were heavily populated

And they were segregated

by race, ethnicity and

occupation.

Major factor

Immigrants moved to cities

= industrial jobs.

Immigration Stations(Places where immigrants came into America)

East Coast – Ellis Island, NY, NY Mainly European

immigrants (Eastern, Southern, Catholic)

West Coast – Angel Island, San Francisco, CA Mainly Asian immigrants

1892 – Ellis Island became the gateway to America for new European immigrants

Immigrants

on a ship to

Ellis Island

in the Port

of NY, 1892

Ellis Island in New York Harbor (statue of

Liberty on far left)

Ellis Island Inspection Room

Ellis Island

Immigration

Identification

Card, 1929

Ellis Island

Inspection

Card,1893

Angel Island,

San Francisco

Bay

“Chinatowns” sprung up all over the West coast

The Chinese were treated much harsher at Angel Island (off the

California Coast) than the Europeans were at Ellis Island.

Native-born Americans resented the Chinese for taking their

jobs as cheap laborers.

Reaction to Immigration

Nativism:Favoritism towards

native-born Americans

Anti-immigrant movement

Blamed immigrants for low wages

Ex. Chine Exclusion Act

Immigration Political Cartoons

• Summarize –What do you see?

• Contextualize –What is going on in history?

Why would this cartoon be created at this

specific time?

• Infer –What is the message?

Looking Backward

“They would close to the newcomer the bridge that carried them and their fathers over.”

Homework: Family Trees

Did you find anything interesting?

Do you have immigrants in your

family?

How much do you know/want to

know about your personal

history?

Immigration through Oral History

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigrat

ion/tour/stop2.htm