OLD vs. NEW IMMIGRATION

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OLD vs. NEWIMMIGRATION
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Coming To America

• AMERICA
• Written by Neil Diamond
• Far We've been traveling far Without a home But
  not without a star   Free Only want to be free We
  huddle close Hang on to a dream   On the boats
  and on the planes They're coming to America Never
  looking back again They're coming to America  
  Home, don't it seem so far away Oh, we're
  traveling light today In the eye of the storm In
  the eye of the storm   Home, to a new and a shiny
  place Make our bed, and we'll say our grace
  Freedom's light burning warm Freedom's light
  burning warm   Everywhere around the world
  They're coming to America Every time that flag's
  unfurled They're coming to America   Got a dream
  to take them there They're coming to America Got
  a dream they've come to share They're coming to
  America   They're coming to America They're
  coming to America They're coming to America
  They're coming to America Today, today, today,
  today, today   My country 'tis of thee Today
  Sweet land of liberty Today Of thee I sing Today
  Of thee I sing Today

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Old Immigrants before 1865

• Came for Political, Economic and Social Factors
• Before the Civil War America had an open
  immigration policy.
• Anyone could come here with no restrictions.
• Immigrants at this time were considered the "OLD
  IMMIGRANTS.

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Old Immigrants 1607-1850s

• Came from NW Europe
• Mostly English and German
• Some French Dutch
• These immigrants were light skinned and had light
  eyes and hair
• Protestant Religion

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Immigration After 1865

• After the Civil War, which ended in 1865,
  Americans began to want to restrict immigration.
• Groups called nativists formed to oppose
  immigration. The Ku Klux Klan and the Know
  Nothings were nativists groups.
• Nativist a group of people who favored
  native-born Americans over immigrants.

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NATIVISM in USA

• Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
• Competition for JOBS
• Cheap Labor
• Fear injection of Immigrant values, ideas,
  politics into American culture

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GANGS OF NEW YORK

• Old Immigrant Natives (English, German, Dutch)
• vs.
• Immigrant Irish

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Immigration from 1890 1920

• A look at the statistics shows that immigration
  continued to increase tremendously in the late
  1800s.
• By the 1900's, it began to drop.
• The 1921 Emergency Quota Act (also known as the
  National Origins Act) further restricted
  immigration.
• The immigrants most affected were different from
  the Old Immigrants and were called NEW
  IMMIGRANTS.

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New Immigrants1860s 1920s

• Came from Eastern Southern Europe.
• These immigrants were Russians, Polish, Italians,
  Irish, (Chinese out W.)
• Jews from Poland and Russia
• Their religions were different from the Old
  Immigrants (Catholic and Jewish).
• They were typically darker in color with darker
  hair and eyes.

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Immigrant Life in America

• Ellis Island, New York Bay (Across from Manhattan
  next to the Statue of Liberty)

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Immigrant Inspections
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Americanization Be American
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West Coast Immigration

• Angel Island (In San Francisco Bay near Oakland)

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Immigrant Occupations

• Mine Workers, Cigar Factory
  workers in 1927

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Immigration Act of 1924

• National Origins Act (Quota Act)
• Greatly reduced the number of immigrants to the
  USA
• Unfairly targeted E. European immigrants (Polish,
  Slavic, Russian)

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Typical Immigrant Occupations

• Italian Polish men building trades
• Eastern European men mines steel mills
• French Canadians New England textile mills
• Jewish men women Italian women garment
  industry
• Greeks Chinese opened businesses like
  laundries restaurants
• All careers required long hours hard labor.
  (They often worked 15 hour days in adverse
  conditions to pay for family necessities.)