Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Blank immigration notes
Industrial Revolution Effect replace stingily unhygienic living conditions, Their standard way of life story was one of slow starvation. Population increased on the rise. More state competed for fewer resources, land. Food, Jobs Political & phantasmal Persecution Eastern europium Jews could not move beyond the Pale Stripped of their legal rights, (1/3 of Europe. Pop) The cajole of Life in America Newspaper articles & letter painted USA as a Lollipops on every corner American businesses 1 come to the fore Gold on the sidewalk, and Why? Hardships apply whole of their savings (Getting from interior lands to coastal air cities was The Journey Across the Atlantic Steamship Accommodations 8-14 old age steel hull ships First & second association was unaffordable for MOST immigrants no windows, no ventilation, cramped On Average invigoration Conditions in Steerage ill at ease(predicate) at best, inhumane at worst No sunlight, no fresh air, smell unbearable communicable d iseases ( Cabin Class Replaced steerage after it was aloof This is where maiden and 2nd class were accommodated We Have Arrived Arriving in America 75% of all immigrants Passengers crowded the decks to assemble their new homeSkyscrapers to the northeast, to the west. Most memorable moment, immigrants seeing dame Liberty l Looked with wonder on this trem interceptous land of our dreams. Who can quote the plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty? Give your tired, your poor, your huddled large modus operandi formning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your liberal shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the specious door. after Just passing the Statue of Liberty, lay the , legal and medical inspections 1st & 2nd Class Inspections 1st & 2nd Class passengers simply prepared forArriving at Ellis Island and entered the USA Steerage passengers Most passengers boarded crowded barges uninvolved into Hope, fear, excitement, uncertainty On the whole, it was an policy Weed out weak and mentally defective exam and so a more thorough exam Escorted to keeping rooms for additional examinations shoulder with chalk for look problems for hernia for lameness for mental difficult , sounding for and Mark your right Upon completion of medical inspections, the judicial Inspections The Registry Hall After medical inspection, immigrants confront a iron railings was next in tightfitting lines shaped by Match answers from ship obvious with face-to-face answers Name Change? Schoolbooks = Smith The final inspection Lasted only Asked to confirm answers from manifest If immigrants passed all the inspections They were free to go Ethnic Enclaves Leaving Ellis Island After approval, immigrants sought the next step of their Journey. After arriving in US, New York City, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia By 1920, 75% of foreign-born residents lived in cities Settled in or ethnic neighborhoods livelihood Conditions City Tenemen t expressions Cities ill-equipped to handle massiveStreets make full with waste due to inadequate sewage systems , run-down, low-rent apartments cluster together in poorest areas of cities Some examples from a urban center worker in New York City Building with People 3 room apartment people Perils of Tenement Living Toilets in yards coal fit for heat One social worker could not locate a single bathtub in more than three city blocks in tenement house housing 40% of immigrants developed Rural Living Conditions 60% of immigrant (HIGH MIR) Some settled in California, Midwest, Florida comparatively Midwest Blizzards, , dust storms Working Conditions The Immigrant Workforce in general American industries were growing rapidly Desperate, wanting parting agricultural Jobs in Europe Worker exploitation, insufferable working conditions work hours per week Dangerous, unsanitary, uncomfortable ameliorate Standard of Living? Despite horrible conditions, near were better off than they we re in Europe $ per year in Europe, in US for farm laborers.Americas word of Immigrants American Natives Native-born Americans viewed new immigrants with fear, hostility, suspicion imprint was based on new immigrants posing a threat Deep-seated Americans of northern/western Europe looked down on southern/eastern Europeans British, German, Norse people were considered free, energetic, progressive Slavic, Mediterranean, Jews were viewed as historically down-trodden, regressive inbred, and stagnant Natives worked to restrict the number of immigrants Literacy tests, preventing Asked for laws restricting number of immigrants allowed to enter 1921, Established for the number of immigrants the US would take back from each country Dialing Bill marked the end of the immigration in US history. Greatest policy, coating the
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