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Section 5.1
Immigration
Today’s Agenda• Current Events
• Immigration Slide Show
• Presentations– George Bellows– Alfred Stieglitz
• Homework– Start reading 5.2
Why did they come to America?
“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to
land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall
standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles.From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.“"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!"”
cries sheWith silent lips. “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-tost to
me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
What motivated them to come?
• “Observe immigrants, you are struck by the fact that from ten to twenty percent are hirsute, low-browed, big-faced persons of obviously low mentality…they clearly belong in skins, in wattled huts at the close of the Ice Age.”
• Professor Edward A. Ross sociologist
Which description best represents the true picture of immigration into America
at the turn of the century?
Both
ObjectivesAt the end of this lesson you should
be able to:
• Describe the change in immigration after 1890 (demography, culture, religion)
• Define assimilation and describe problems associated with it for immigrants
• List social problems faced by city dwellers
What is your ethnicity?• When did your ancestors (grandparents,
great-grandparents) come to America? What year (about)? Where did they live? Occupation? What made them come here?
Describe how immigration changed after 1890.
• Greatly increased 1890-1920– 25 million
• Demographic shift– Before 1890
• From Northern and Western Europe – Great Britain, Ireland, Germany
• Protestant– After 1890 to1920
• From Southern and Eastern Europe– Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia– New Faiths (Catholic, Jewish)– Poor and uneducated
What problems did they encounter?• Assimilation
– Polish immigrant quote pg. 154
• Eugenics– The Passing of the Great Race
(1916)• “lesser breeds” will
“mongrelize” America• Nativism/Xenophobia
– Henry Bowers• Protective Association• Immigration Restriction
League• Literacy Tests
Who wants the flow of immigration to continue?
• Factory Owners
• Why?
• Cheap Labor
How did people in art
react to these new
problems?
George Bellows
Presentation
What about today? How open should our borders be?
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