The Hope of Immigrants

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The Hope of Immigrants

• In the Mid 1800s, Millions of Europeans came to
  the United States hoping to build a Better Life

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Key Vocabulary

• Emigrant
• Immigrant
• Steerage
• Push-Pull Factor
• Famine
• Prejudice
• Nativist
• Transcendentalism
• Civil Disobedience

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One Way Tickets Only

• As More Cheep Land Became Available, immigrants
  would make their ocean voyage in Steerage to save
  money
• Conditions in Steerage were filthy spreading
  sickness, disease, and death along the journey
• Immigrants from Britain, Ireland, Germany,
  Scandinavia, and China came to the United States
  to start a new life

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Tug of War

• Push Factors
• Overcrowding in Europe
• Large Farms Pushed Small Farmers out of Europe
• Crop Failures and Starvation led to People
  Leaving Europe
• Artisans began to seek factory jobs in America
• People Looked to Escape Political Turmoil

• Pull factors
• Better Freedoms in America
• American Prosperity increased Luring immigrants
  from Europe
• Land was more Available in the United States

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Den-Marks the Spot

• People from Scandinavia (Sweden, Denmark and
  Norway) bought Cheap land in the United States
• Though their countries tried to prevent leaving,
  they would settle in the Midwest due to similar
  climates and became farmers

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Wheres the Bratwurst?

• German Immigrants also moved to the Midwest to
  farm lands similar to Germany
• Germans would also try to set up communities in
  Texas but would have to survive poor harvests
• German Artisans also came to America to find
  prosperity, including John Bausch and Henry
  Laumb, who became very wealthy
• Germans would bring us Traditions like Christmas
  trees, Gymnasiums, Kindergartens, Hamburgers, and
  the Frankfurter

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We need a Holiday InnExpress

• Many Jewish Immigrants began to find success in
  America as Salesmen in Mining Towns or Store
  owners in Big Cities
• Alexander Rothschild would open up a small
  grocery store in Connecticut and turn his profits
  into a popular Hotel Chain

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Irish Springs in America

• Irish Settlers came to America to escape poverty,
  persecution, and to find land and freedom
• After the Potato Famine Hit Ireland, over 2
  million people would leave the homeland to avoid
  death and starvation
• With little Money Irish settlers stayed in Port
  Towns making up 1/4th of many big city
  populations
• Many Irish settlers were uneducated and took the
  hardest jobs, like building railroads, washing,
  or working as servants
• The Irish would compete with free blacks for the
  low paying jobs that nobody else wanted

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Sardines in a can

• As Americans and Immigrants flocked to the
  cities, they would soon face overcrowding
• Housing shortages led greedy landlords to pack
  people into small apartments leading to disease
  and crime
• Big Cities lacked proper police, fire, and sewer
  support for their growing populations
• As Immigrants came to the cities politicians
  would start to assist them in settling, in
  exchange for their vote

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VERY UNINFORMED

• As Immigration increased, prejudices began to put
  immigrants in danger
• Nativists looked to protect Americas Native Born
  Citizens and formed groups to discriminate
  against all immigrants forming the Know Nothing
  Party
• The Know Nothing Party formed to ban Catholics
  and immigrants from holding office, a 21 year
  waiting period to become a citizen, and a cut in
  Immigration
• The Party would elect 6 governors but
  disagreements on slavery would lead to the end of
  the party

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True change comes from within

• As Americans try to become more knowledgeable
  Noah Webster creates an American Only Dictionary
• Transcendentalism, founded by Emerson and
  Thoreau, teaches people that the spiritual world
  is more important than the physical world
• Thoreau would also preach Civil Disobedience to
  protest peacefully over issues

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