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FIRST IMMIGRANTS
1500s
• NEW WORLD’S GOLD
• SPANISH
• OUTPOSTS
• FLORIDA
FIRST IMMIGRANTS
1500s
• PROSPECTS OF WEALTH
• FRENCH FUR TRADERS
• TRADING POSTS
• St. LAWRENCE
FIRST IMMIGRANTS
1500s
• BRITISH
• PROFIT & RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
• JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA
• PROTESTANT
FIRST IMMIGRANTS
1600s – 1700s
• EAST COAST
• DUTCH – NEW YORK
• GERMAN – PENNSYLVANIA
• SWEDES – DELAWARE
• BRITISH – VIRGINIA
ALSO FROM AFRICA, FRANCE, SPAIN AND SWITZERLAND
NATIVE AMERICANS
• Major changes when Europeans arrived
• CLASH of cultures
• Reservations
Native Americans watching the arrival of Europeans
OLD IMMIGRATION
• Boomed during the 1840s and 1850s– From: NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE, ENGLAND,
SCOTLAND, IRELAND, GERMANY AND CHINA
– Reasons: POOR HARVESTS, FAMINE, POLITICAL FREEDOM, BETTER LIFE, FAMILY REUNIFICATION
– EASILY ACCEPTED INTO US:• PROTESTANS
• READ, WRITE AND SPEAK IN ENGLISH
Prior 1800: OLD IMMIGRANTS
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEANS
• Those who arrive after 1880: NEW IMMIGRANTS– From: SOUTHERN & EASTERN EUROPE, POLAND, RUSSIA,
GRECCE, ITALY, AUSTRIA, HUNGARY
– Reasons: WORK, FAMINE, POLITICAL UNREST, BETTER LIFE
– NOT EASILY ACCEPTED INTO US:• CATHOLICS AND JEWISH
• COULD NOT READ OR WRITE
• CUSTOMS, LANGUAGE AND APPEARANCE SET THEM APART
• Affected American cities
• Rowling NEW YORK and CHICAGO
• ETHNIC NEIGHBORHOODS
• Preserve language and customs
• “Chinatown”
IN AMERICA
NATIVIST SENTIMENT
• Rising immigrant populationcreates racists attitudes
• Prejudices
• Fear
• Americans pressuredcongress to act
• 1920s - QUOTA SYSTEM/RESTRICTION
Americans whohated immigrants
ASSIMILATION PROCESS
• FIRST GENERATION– OBTACLES: DISCRIMITANION AND RELUCTANCY
• SECOND GENERATION– BETTER TO IDENTIFY THEMSELF AS AMERICANS, SPOKE
MOSTLY ENGLISH AND PRACTICED FEWER ETHNIC CUSTOMS
• THIRD GENERATION– USUALLY NO LONGER ABLE TO SPEAK THEIR GRANDPARENTS’
LANGUAGE
• FOURTH/FIFTH GENERATION– INTERMARRIAGE AGAINST ETHNIC IDENTITY
RECENT IMMIGRACION
• 1920 IMMIGRATION DROPPED
• NEW ASSIMILATION PROBLEM
• NEW IMMIGRANTS:
– MEXICO, LATIN AMERICA, ASIA
– CAMBODIAN AND VIETNAM REFUGEES WHO FLED THE DESTRUCTION AND UPHEAVAL OF THE VIETNAN WAR
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