Objective: To discuss how immigrants adjusted to life in America.

Quiz Ch 14 Workers

1. Steel company’s worker strike (H S)2. What type of worker where mostly hired during the 1900 (I) 3. Law that made monopoly illegal (S A A)4. Railroad sleeping car owner laid off 1/3 of its workers (P S)5. Organizations that aid workers (L U)6. Founder of American Federation of Labor (S G)7. A bomb was thrown that killed eleven people (H R)8. Work stoppage (S)9. More than 150 women dies in a fire accident (T F)10. The first major strike where workers of railroads wage was

cut (G R S)

The new immigrants • They were Catholics,

Orthodox Christians and Jews.

• Most settled in the cities

Ellis Island(New York)

• Gateway to the land of opportunity

• East Coast immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe.

• Irish and Russian, Italian and Hungarian

Requirements:

• passport• medical

exam• Competenc

y test• Mostly

accepted are those with skills

• Those with visible health problems or diseases were sent home or held in the island's hospital facilities for long periods of time.

• they were asked 29 questions including name, occupation, and the amount of money they carried with them.

• Generally those immigrants who were approved spent from two to five hours at Ellis Island.

• However more than three thousand would-be immigrants died on Ellis Island while being held in the hospital facilities.

• Some unskilled workers were rejected outright because they were considered "likely to become a public charge." About 2 percent were denied admission to the U.S. and sent back to their countries of origin for reasons such as chronic contagious disease, criminal background, or insanity.

• Ellis Island was sometimes known as "The Island of Tears" or "Heartbreak Island" because of those 2% who were not admitted after the long transatlantic voyage.

One of many tests used to decide whether an immigrant had any mental problems.

Reasons:• immigrants

who faced • war, • extreme

poverty, • Famine• religious

persecution,

Statue of Liberty• Immigrants greeted by

the Statue of Liberty.  • a gift from France• Frederic Bartholdi

designed and sculpted the statue.

• a symbol of liberty.• seven spikes in the

statue's crown stand for seven liberties:  civil, moral,  national, natural, personal, political, and religious.  

LADY LIBERTY

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning

to breathe free,  The wretched refuse of your

teeming shore.  Send these, the homeless,

tempest-tossed to me.  I lift my lamp beside the golden

door."

Images courtesy of the National Park Service/Ellis Island

Angel Island • West Coast

immigrants were processed in San Francisco

• East Asian (Chinese and Japanese)

Melting Pot• A mixture of

people with different culture blended together

• Abandons their native language and culture

• the blending or fusing of minority groups into the dominant society

Assimilation

Anti- immigrants • Nativism

– native-born Americans saw immigrants as threats to society.

– felt immigrants brought crime and poverty

– accepted jobs for lower wages,

– Compete for jobs

Limiting of Immigration

• with a worsening economy

• Chinese Exclusion Act

– banning Chinese immigration for 10 years.

Japanese immigrants• Gentlemen’s

Agreement – Limited

Japanese immigrants

– children could attend schools

Urban• Tenement– Multifamily

urban dwelling (apartments)

– overcrowded, dirty

– and oftentimes had no windows, heat, or indoor bathrooms.

– unsanitary

Hull House – a settlement house set up by Jane Addams (community center in slum neighborhoods, provides assistance, especially immigrants)

Help for the Poor• Salvation Army

The worldwide expansion of the Salvation Army