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| What are the three key terms associated with Immigration? |
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1. Push and Pull Factors
2. "New" Immigration
3. Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 |
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How many immigrants did the US have from:
1. 1821-1840
2. 1841-1860
3. 1861-1880
4. 1881-1900
5. 1900-1920 |
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1. 743,000
2. 4.3 million
3. 5.1 million
4. 8.9 million
5. 14.5 million |
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| What is one major reason why immigrants are coming to the U.S.? |
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| What makes the U.S. more attractive to immigrants? |
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| There are motives and means to migrate, and it is getting cheaper to move since there is new transportation like the steam boat. |
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| What are push and pull factors? |
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| Something "pushing and pulling" a person to migrate to a different country. |
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| Give 3 examples of push factors. |
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| poverty, famine, and religion (pogroms) |
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| What is an example of a certain famine that happened that he went over in class? |
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| The Irish potato famine where the Irish's potatoes were infected, and that's all the poor Irish people had |
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| Why were there push factors on religion? |
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| Some people would get beaten if they believed a certain thing... Like Jewish |
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| An organized massacre of a particular ethnic group |
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| What is the most important pull factor that got immigrants to come to the U.S.? What is a side step to the #1 thing? |
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| Economic opportunity, freedom-(not as important) |
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| Before 1890, where were most of the immigrants coming from? |
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| After 1890, where were most of the immigrants coming from? |
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| What are three countries from North and west Europe? |
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| Germany, Ireland, and England |
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| What are three countries from South and East Europe? |
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| Poland, Russia, and Italy |
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| Who were the "New" immigrants? |
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| The immigrants that were coming from the new places. It is an ongoing cycle because there will always be a new group. |
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| People being absorbed into a new society. |
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| Where most immigrants assimilated in the U.S.? why? (3) |
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| No, because they had different beliefs in religion, they spoke a different language, and they had different alphabets. ETC. |
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| How were Irishmen treated? |
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| Americans thought they were inferior. |
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| Who was worried that German immigrants would take over and do harm? |
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| Why did many view immigration as a negative thing? (2) |
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| There were too many and they took away jobs to work cheaper |
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| What was the main jobs of the Chinese when they first came here? |
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| Build the Rail Roads to the west. (This moved people out west) |
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| How did Chinese get the stereotypes they have now? |
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| When Americans moved West, they kicked the Chinese out of the high paying jobs and made them work at shops like laundry etc. |
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| The whole idea for immigrants were to come to America, make enough money to return back home to retire because they had enough money. Bu how many actually left? How many stayed? |
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| What did the typical immigrant look like? |
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| What did the typical Jewish immigrant look like? |
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| They brought their entire family mainly from pogroms (push factor). |
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| Where do most immigrants typically stay? |
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| Where the boat dropped them off in the city |
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| In the city, who do immigrants typically surround themselves with? Why and where? |
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| Their race so the can communicate with them, and in neighborhoods |
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| When an individual/family is established in a community, and he/they try to get their friends and family to come join them and work with them |
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| How did many immigrants get news? |
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| Why couldn't many immigrants assimilate in society? |
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| Many Americans rejected them |
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| What is a major determination on where immigrants work? |
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| What group is mainly associated in the meat packing industry? |
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| What did immigration make the U.S.? |
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| Which city had more foreign born than any other? |
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New York had how many foreign born children in these areas?:
1. Italy
2. Germany
3. Irish
4. Jewish |
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1. Italy- 1/2 of their city Naples
2. Germany- as big as their city Hamburg
3. Irish- 2 times of their city Dublin
4. Jewish- largest Jewish population |
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| What percent of the population in New York are immigrant children/ people that fist came over? (this might be wrong) |
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| The Native Americans (not Indians). The people who were decedents of immigrants a long time ago, and now they are considered Americans. |
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| Although Nativists ancestors were immigrants, what do they say about immigrants coming in? |
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| They close the door on them. |
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| Who are the Nativists main target? |
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| What were the Nativists worried about? |
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| Immigrants taking their job |
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| What is a stereotype of the Irish? |
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| What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882? |
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| It tried to prevent the Chinese from immigrating to the U.S. (mainly the West Coast) |
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| What was the very first restriction on immigration? |
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| the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 |
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| How did Americans view the Irish? |
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| Give an example of psudeo- science. |
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| They compared the size of African American, Irish, and American skulls, and American skulls were bigger, so they said blacks and Irish are inferior |
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| What was something that tried to stop immigration? |
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| Who was the American Protection Agency? |
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| They tried to stop Catholics from immigrating to the U.S. |
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| What is the National Origins Act of 1924? |
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| This act completely stopped immigrants from coming in. |
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| How long did the National Origins Act of 1924 stay in place? |
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| Who triumphs because of the National Origins Act of 1924? |
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| What was a vital part of the U.S.? |
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| From 1860-1920 what happens to the population? |
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| How much bigger is the Urban population from 1860-1920? |
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| How many percent of Americans lived in 1890? 1920? |
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| In 1850, how many cities had 100,000 or greater people? 1900? |
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1850- 6 cities
1900- 38 cities |
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| What was a major reason why immigrants are moving? |
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| How fast did a new city grow? |
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| Cities where you could walk everywhere. Like from your home to your job |
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| What makes walking cities easier to live in? |
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| Transportation (Horse drawn Rail Roads, Cable cars, and electric trollies) |
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| What are the places right outside of the city called? |
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| In 1890, how many miles of tracks did cable cars have? 1900? |
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1890- 1,300 miles
1900- 20,000 miles |
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| How are cities expanding? |
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| Outward and upward (skyscrapers) |
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| What helped make skyscrapers get even larger? |
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| When was then first electric elevator crated and by who? |
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| 1889- Otis put a patten on them |
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| What is tenement housing? |
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| run down apartment buildings that barely meet minimum standards |
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| In 1894, the tenement housing in New York was the biggest in the world. How many people per acre was it? What is it now? |
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985 People Per Acre
85 People Per Acre |
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| With an increase of people what is there an increase of? (bad thing, hard to get rid of) |
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| Waste, Animal waste, garbage waste, and human waste. They don't have a good way of getting rid of it. |
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| There was 1 outhouse for how many people? |
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| The horse carriages placed a lot of POOP on the ground. They pooped a lot. There were a lot of horses that went poop on the road and filled it with a large amount of poop. I bet the horses poop was also enormous. POOP |
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| What did immigrants bring with them that was bad? |
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| Different diseases, and since there were so many people, a lot of them got sick and even died from it |
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| What was the life expectancy? 2 reasons why? |
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| mid-30's. disease, work accidents, etc. |
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| He was a photographer who took pictures of tenement housings, and all of the bad conditions the people were in. |
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| What book did Jacob Riis publish? |
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| How the other half lives. |
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| Who lived in tenement houses (cities)? |
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| Who lived in suburban houses? |
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| The middle class and the upper class |
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| What was visible during this time? |
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| Police, firetrucks, etc. would rarely go to tenement housing because the officer were private. They would go to the suburban homes first |
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| Since the cities began to get more and more people, the government needed to provide what? |
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| What is the progressive era? |
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| When the growing city forces the government to help. |
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| What are two ways that industrialization has an impact on us? |
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| Production vs. Consumption and how they play a role in our lives |
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| As production increase, what is expanding? |
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| Buying goods, like apps, clothes, food, etc. |
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| What is our lives mostly based on? |
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| What is the U.S. refereed to as? |
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| Consumption mainly emerged when? |
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| What happens as consumer resources emerge? |
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| Crises goes down and wages go up |
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| Who is benefiting from consumption? |
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| What is a major product that opens up even more opportunities? |
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| What are three major conveniences? |
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Canned food,
Telephones,
And Refrigeration |
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What is the consumption of oranges in:
1880?
1900?
1920? |
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1880- Florida, Texas, California
1900- 100 crates per 1000 people
1920- 250 crates per 1000 people |
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What is the consumption of cigarets in:
1880?
1900?
1920? |
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1880- 0
1900- 2
1920- 43 billion sold in U.S. |
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What is the consumption of soap in:
1880?
1900?
1920? |
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1880- 0
1900- 63
1920- $1.40 per person |
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