warm up 9/19 sentence correction: jim abbott was born on september 19 1967, in flint michigan he...
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Warm
Up 9
/19
Sentence Correction: jim abbott
was born on september 19 1967, in
flint michigan he was born without a
right hand but became a major league
baseball pitcher he also won a gold
medal in the 1988 olumpics, pitching
for team usa. Journal: Reflect on the flood. How did
it affect you or someone you know?
How did it affect Colorado?
Warm
up 9
/23/1
3
Sentence: on september 23
1846 johann galle discovered the planet
neptune it is the eight planet
from the sun and takes 165
years two revolve around the
sun Journal: What was life like for
immigrants coming through
Ellis Island?
Immigration
Immigration
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddles masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
-Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus,” 1883.
Push
and P
ull
Fact
ors Push factors:
Problems that cause
people to move. Pull factors:
Attractions that draw
them to another place.
Contr
act
La
bore
rs
Immigrants who had
signed contracts to work for U.S. employers (before
getting to America).
“Here was a congestion the like of which I had never seen before. Within the narrow limits of one-half square mile were crowded together thirty-five thousand people, living tier upton tier, huddles together until the very heavens seemed to be shut out. These narrow alley-like streets of Old Boston were one mass of litter. The air was laden with soot and dirt. Ill odors arose from every direction… A thousand wheels of commercial activity whirled incessantly day and night, making noises which would rack the sturdiest of nerves.”
How did Americans respond to new Immigrants?
Sett
lem
ent
House
Community center which provided services to the poor,
especially immigrants!
Am
eri
caniz
ati
on
& N
ati
vism
Americanization: Assimilation of immigrants into American society and
way of life! Nativism: Favoring the interest of native-
born Americans over
interests of immigrants.
Immigration from Asia -The Exclusion Act Chinese blamed for economic problems.
Chinese seen as inferior who could never be Americanized.
Chinese Exclusion Act Prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers,
skilled or unskilled for a period of 10 years!
Prevented Chinese already in country from becoming citizens.
Still allowed some Chinese to enter
Imm
igra
tion
from
Asi
a Angel Island
Immigration Station – “Ellis Island of the West” Designed to enforce
exclusion act.
Going through could take days!
Some immigrants detained for months or years!
“Imprisoned in the wooden building day after day, My freedom withheld; how can I bear to talk about it?”
Imm
igra
tion
from
Asi
a Asian immigrants faced prejudice, hostility, and discrimination.
Asian children separated from whites in schools. Japans government protested.
Roosevelt intervenes.
Gentlemen’s Agreement Japan agreed not to allow
laborers to emigrate to U.S. EXCEPT wives, children and parents of those already there
Immigration from Mexico
Moved to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
Higher wages!
Some worked on rail roads and farms.
Mexican Revolution pushed more across the border.
Imm
igra
tion
from
Canada
French Canadians Settled in New
England and around the Great Lakes.
Worked in textile mills
and lumber camps. Resisted Americanization
Why
is im
mig
rati
on
an im
port
ant
part
of
our
his
tory
? Helped to populate the
U.S. Shaped our history and culture. Helped build our
country.