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Immigration
1890-1910
Old Immigrants
• Protestants
• Northwest Europe
• England, Germany
• Holland
• Scandinavia
New Immigrants
• Southern and Eastern Europe
• Czechs
• Russians
• Greeks
• Hungarians
• Poles
New Immigrants
• Also
• Arabs
• Armenians
• Chinese
• Japanese
• French Canadians
Why did they Come ?
• To escaper persecution
• Poverty
• Racial intolerance (Jews in Russia)
• To work for the railroad
• To work for steamship companies
The Voyage
• Voyage across the Atlantic was difficult
• Most traveled below deck/ steerage
• No privacy, poor ventilation,
• Noise
• Cramped quarters disease
Ellis Island
• New York harbor• Screened for physical and mental health• Mental disorders, serious health defects or
contagious diseases were turned backand deported• Background check• Job skill• Relatives in america
Reality in America
• Lived in cities
• Forced to settle for unskilled low paying employment
• Substandard housing
• Deteriorating neighborhoods
• Tenements/slums
• Better than where they came from
Northeast and Midwest
• Patchwork quilt• Ethnic neighborhoods• Spoke same languages• Followed same customs from the old country• Religious institutions• Community centers• Benevolent : to assist immigrants in cases of
unemployment – religious and non-religious
Employment for the Immigrant
• Bottom of the labor ladder
• Nations”dirty work
• Mines, sweatshop, construction
• Exhausting and hard
• Poor wages
• Long house
• Unsafe conditions
Anti-immigrant feelings
• Nativists: argued that the newcomers would never fit into American society
• Blamed them for crime, poverty and violence
• Took jobs away from native born American
• Led to rise of union
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