CHAPTER 8 SECTION 2

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CHAPTER 8 SECTION 2

• POLITICS, IMMIGRATION, and URBAN LIFE
• (1870-1915)

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• Between 1865 and 1920 almost 30 million people
  entered the US.
• In 1892 a huge reception area for immigrants on
  Ellis Island in New York Harbor was opened for
  processing of European immigrants.
• Most immigrants who enter through the West Coast
  ports come from Asia (China and Japan). Angel
  Island was opened in San Francisco Bay and was
  similar to Ellis Island in NY.
• In the mid-1800s American railroad companies
  recruit about a quarter of a million Chinese
  workers.

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• Labor groups protest and Congress passes the
  Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), prohibiting Chinese
  laborers from entering the United States.
• It is not repealed until 1943.
• Anti Japanese feelings lead to the Web Alien Land
  Law in California, banning alien (non-citizen)
  Asians from owning farmland.
• This reflects the growing xenophobia and nativist
  attitude in our nation during this era.

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• Immigrants came to the US for various push and
  pull factors examples
• In Italy grapes were ruined by a parasite.
• In Russia Jews were being persecuted in a wave of
  massive persecutions called pogroms.
• The Irish potato famine.
• Various Civil Wars, genocide, violence, famine,
  poverty, etc.
• New opportunity and a new life

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• Immigrants traveled in steerage the part of the
  ship for transporting goods.
• Many would get to Ellis Island and were either
  sent back or quarantined.
• When they got here they settled in ghettos.
• These are areas where one ethnic or racial group
  dominated. (Italians Germans- Irish )
• Contribute to Urbanization

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IMMIGRATION THROUGH ELLIS ISLAND

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vu4wzVuXPznk

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ELLIS ISLAND TOUR

• http//teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigrati
  on/tour/stop5.htm