Coming to new Terms with the New Age

B. Why would they leave?

a. Religious & Political persecution

b. Economics/jobsc. overcrowdingd. Food and land

shortages

C. The Journey Over

                       

     

D. Immigrants Arrive1. B/4 1890, most came

Ireland and Germany; “old immigrants”

2. After 1890, most came from Central, Eastern, and southern Europe; “new immigrants”

3. Filled thousands of low paying jobs

4. Cities unable to keep up with demands

E. Ellis Island

Great Hall

Inspection Lines

Medical & Mental Exams

F. The Irish & The German

1. Potato famine – 18452. Catholic3. Anti-British4. Poor and illiterate5. Northeast

1. Farmers and craftsmen2. Better off than the Irish3. Midwest

H. Angel Island (West)

1. China and Japan2. Transcontinental RR and gold rush3. Mining, farming, domestic work

1. Culture shock: The confusion and anxiety that results from not understanding a new culture

2. How do you cope?

1. Nativism – favoritism over native-born

2. Increase in anti-immigrant groups

3. “Right” immigrants

4. Asians, Jews, E. Europeans, Catholic: Not!

13.2: Problems of Urban America

Perceived opportunities of wealth

A. Urban Opportunities

1. UrbanizationRapid growth of a city

2. Who moved into the cities?a. Immigrantsb. Rural Americans

3. Why the cities?a. Cheap and convenientb. jobsc. Cultural diversity

B. Distribution of Income

1. Uneven2. Slums sign of God

“are running the cities”

1. Informal political group designed to gain and keep power. Ran by a “party boss”

2. Tammany Hall: NY Democratic political machine led by “Boss” Tweed

3. Graft - bribes4. Helped government

officials/themselves get elected

4. Helped immigrants get jobs and homes in return for votes

& The Second Great Awakening (1790s)

Advocated Christian Perfectionism

1. Social reform supported by Evangelicals

2. Wanted to make the world “perfect”

3. Facilities for the criminals and insane

4. Reforms based on social control; i.e. temperance

5. Women biggest supporters; Declaration of Sentiments/Elizabeth Cady Stanton

1. Horace Manna. Kids need school for

structure and disciplineb. Advocated public

schoolsc. Group by age not

ability; help each otherd. Women make better

teachers; they are nurturers

Mother Ann Lee

advocated celibacy and communal families

a. Community based on cooperation and hard work

b. Self governc. JS Killed in Illinois;

1844d. B.Y. takes

followers to Utahe. Accepting of

immigrants

Joseph Smith

Brigham Young

SLC Temple