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Urban Immigrants
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Ellis Island
• Ellis Island is in New York Harbor. It was the gateway to American for 90% of the immigrants entering the United States in the 1890’s.
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Registry Room in the Registry Room in the main building of main building of
Ellis Island, 1905Ellis Island, 1905
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Where do we go, now?
• Immigrants found low paying jobs as unskilled workers.– Clothing factories– .– .– .– .
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– Coal mines
–Coal mines
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Steel Mills
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Textile Mills
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Ghetto Fabulous?
• A ghetto is an area where many people of the same ethnic background live usually very poor (New York & Chicago).
• Families crammed into tenements – families living in one room of an apartment without heat and without water.
• Ghettos were also called slums.
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Melting Pot
• Jews ~ fled persecution in homelands. Between 1881-1914, 2 million Jews immigrated to America. They wanted jobs, free education and religious freedom.
• Italians ~ lived in a section of NY called “Little Italy.” Little Italy was a slum/ghetto. They brought their distinct customs and religion.
• Chinese~ Immigrated to the West Coast. They lived in San Francisco in China Town.
• Sweatshops were small,
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Bohemian cigar makers at work in a tenement, Bohemian cigar makers at work in a tenement, New York City, around 1889New York City, around 1889
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Workin’ Hard for the Money
• Sweatshops were small, dark dirty factories.
• Workers worked 12 to 18 hours per day, 6 or 7 days a week in sweatshops.
Children often carried goods to and from shops and performed simple operations such as removing basting threads.
Italian boy holding a bundle of cloth, New York City, around 1910