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Title: Immigration


1
Immigration Urbanization
  • The Causes and Effects

2
Immigration and Migration
  • Poverty, Persecution cause millions of people to
    leave Europe, Japan, China, Mexico, and the
    Caribbean
  • Jews leave Europe b/c of pogroms-religious
    persecution
  • Immigrants are forced to adapt to new language
    and new culture
  • Hull house helps w/ assimilation

3
Immigration and Migration
  • Changes in agriculture cause people to migrate
    from rural U.S. to cities in search of work
  • B/c Inventions, like mechanical reaper, farms no
    longer need as many pple to work
  • Immigrants face discrimination in their efforts
    to find jobs and housing
  • Most live in tenement houses

4
Urbanization
  • Influx of immigrants and migrants cause a
    population BOOM in cities
  • Cities cant keep up with sanitation,
    transportation, housing, fire, crime
  • City services such as sanitation are stretched to
    the limit

5
Urbanization
  • Reformers try to fix urban problems through
    education, training, charity, political action
  • Jane Addams- Hull House
  • Jacob Riis- How the Other Half Lives
  • Horace Mann- Public Education

6
Politics
  • Political Machines develop to take advantage of
    the needs of Immigrants and Urban Poor.
  • b/c uneducated they do not know that they are
    being cheated out of tax .
  • Cont. to vote for politicians b/c politicians
    reward them w/ jobs, housing, etc

7
Politics
  • City politicians use fraud and graft to maintain
    political power
  • Graft-reward people who help you get elected
  • Boss Tweed leader of Tammany Hall, most famous
    of them all
  • Corruption in National Politics results in the
    call for civil service jobs to be awarded on
    basis of merit
  • Pendleton Service Act
  • Take test to get job

8
Politics
  • Big businesss growing influence on politics
    defeats tariff reform that would aid wage earners
  • Business takes over govt politics
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