Urbanization and Immigration

​Urbanization and Immigration

​Americans Migrate to Cities

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• Both immigrants and farmers began to migrate to the cities

  • Immigrants migrated to the cities because they lacked both money and experience needed to settle in farmland

  • Farmers and Americans that lived in rural areas migrated because they offered better paying jobs and the cheap land that was once plentiful was no longer available

Multiple Select

Why did farmers and Americans who lived in rural areas migrate to the cities? (multiple answers)

• better paying jobs

• mining prospects

• more expensive land

• cheap land

​Americans Migrate to Cities

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• Rapid growth in the cities lead to two new things.

  1. Skyscrapers

  2. New modes of transportation

     1. Electric trolley cars

     2. Subway system

  
  

​Separation by Class

 

Upper Class	Middle Class	Working Class
Business owners, wealthy politicians etc.	Doctors, lawyers, engineers, managers, social workers, architects, teachers	Factory workers, clerks, secretaries, domestic servants
Large homes with servants	Average homes	Lived in tenements and apartments
Lots of clubs and activities in leisure time	Clubs and some leisure time	No leisure time as they had to work often

Multiple Choice

Which class had servants?

• Upper class

• Middle class

• Lower class

Multiple Choice

Which class lived in apartments and tenement buildings?

• Upper Class

• Middle Class

• Lower Class

​European Immigration

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• Between 1865-1914 [end of Civil War and start of WWI, 25 million people immigrated to the United States.

• Video

  
  
  

Open Ended

What are some reasons people left Europe to come to the United State?

Open Ended

Why was the registry room on the second floor?

Open Ended

What percent of people were deported because of medical or legal reasons?

Demographics

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• Culture shift also in terms of religion; Catholics went from 

  5% to 17% of population.

  
  Most people that immigrated would stay close to others who were from the same place originally, creating their own places where they spoke native languages, rebuild their churches, synagogues, clubs, ect from their homeland.
  
  

Open Ended

Name 2 push factors and to pull factors for European immigration to the United States.

Asian Immigration

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After the Civil War many people from China came over, mid 1800s China suffered:

• Unemployment

• Poverty

• Famine

• Civil War 

Japanese immigrants came over too but once they started to industrialize and have hardships on the economy people stayed more

Multiple Select

Why was there a rise in Chinese immigration? (multiple answers)

• unemployment

• poverty

• famine

• civil war

Nativism

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• hostility towards immigrants by Native born people

• Focused on: Jews, Asians, & E. Europeans

  
  

  Nativist opposed immigration: 

  • Catholicism would overtake 

  • Immigrants undermined American workers because they would work for low wages and be strikebreakers

  
  
  

Multiple Choice

What religion did Nativists think would take over the United states?

• Christianity

• Catholicism

• Judaism

• Islam

Gentleman’s Agreement with Japan

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• Gentlemen's Agreement, (1907), U.S.-Japanese understanding in which Japan agreed not to issue passports to emigrants to the United States, except to certain categories of business and professional men.

  
  

  
  
  

Multiple Select

What Japanese people were the exception to the no Japanese immigration law? (multiple answers)

• business men

• athletes

• professional men

• mathematicians

Chinese Exclusion Acts

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• Grab an AP book from the shelf if you haven't already!

• Turn to page 341 and read the section about the Chinese Exclusion Act. There will be 4 short answer questions to follow!
  

  
  
  

Open Ended

What is the Chinese Exclusion Acts?

Open Ended

Why did this act get passed?

Open Ended

What was significant about this act?

Open Ended

What effects did this leave on the United States?