The Age of the City

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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America

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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America

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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America
• push-pull factors

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Leaving home
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Steerage deck
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Steerage berth
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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America
• push-pull factors
• immigration industrialization

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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America
• push-pull factors
• immigration industrialization
• Changes in immigration

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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America
• push-pull factors
• immigration industrialization
• Changes in immigration
• more

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Steamship
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Immigrants on steamship
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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America
• push-pull factors
• immigration industrialization
• Changes in immigration
• more
• different people

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3 peak years of immigration
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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America
• push-pull factors
• immigration industrialization
• Changes in immigration
• more
• different people
• The Changing American Reaction

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Changing view toward immigrants
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Nativist flag
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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America
• push-pull factors
• immigration industrialization
• Changes in immigration
• more
• different people
• The Changing American Reaction
• doubts about America

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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America
• push-pull factors
• immigration industrialization
• Changes in immigration
• more
• different people
• The Changing American Reaction
• doubts about America
• the immigrant threat

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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America
• push-pull factors
• immigration industrialization
• Changes in immigration
• more
• different people
• The Changing American Reaction
• doubts about America
• the immigrant threat
• social

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Thomas Nast cartoon
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Anti-Chinese ad
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Little Italy, New York
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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America
• push-pull factors
• immigration industrialization
• Changes in immigration
• more
• different people
• The Changing American Reaction
• doubts about America
• the immigrant threat
• social
• economic

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Immigrants working on the railroad
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Unskilled labor, New York
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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America
• push-pull factors
• immigration industrialization
• Changes in immigration
• more
• different people
• The Changing American Reaction
• doubts about America
• the immigrant threat
• social
• economic
• political

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Radical threat
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Immigrant voters
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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America
• push-pull factors
• immigration industrialization
• Changes in immigration
• more
• different people
• The Changing American Reaction
• doubts about America
• the immigrant threat
• social
• economic
• political
• racial

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The racial threat
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Madison Grant
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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America
• push-pull factors
• immigration industrialization
• Changes in immigration
• more
• different people
• The Changing American Reaction
• doubts about America
• the immigrant threat
• social
• economic
• political
• racial
• difficulty of restriction

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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America
• push-pull factors
• immigration industrialization
• Changes in immigration
• more
• different people
• The Changing American Reaction
• doubts about America
• the immigrant threat
• social
• economic
• political
• racial
• difficulty of restriction
• The Immigrant Reaction

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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America
• push-pull factors
• immigration industrialization
• Changes in immigration
• more
• different people
• The Changing American Reaction
• doubts about America
• the immigrant threat
• social
• economic
• political
• racial
• difficulty of restriction
• The Immigrant Reaction

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Ellis Island
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Ellis Island
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Ellis Island
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Arrival in New York
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Hester Street, New York
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Closeness to nature
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Closeness to nature
Urban crowding
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Natural rhythms
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Natural rhythms
Industrial time
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Family farm
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Family farm
Tenement living
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Village society
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Village society
Urban chaos
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Problems of raising children
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Problems of raising children
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The Age of the City

• Immigrants in America
• Coming to America
• push-pull factors
• immigration industrialization
• Changes in immigration
• more
• different people
• The Changing American Reaction
• doubts about America
• the immigrant threat
• social
• economic
• political
• racial
• difficulty of restriction
• The Immigrant Reaction

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The immigrant neighborhood
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The immigrant neighborhood
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The immigrant neighborhood
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Immigrant societies
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Old World customs
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Gradual Americanization