Urbanization Immigration and the Huddling Masses I II The Great American Melting Pot i See School House Rock video via YouTube Four immigration waves i ii iii 1600 1820 British and Africans 1820 1856 Northwestern Europeans and Irish 1880 1920 Southeastern Europeans and Irish highest level of immigration 35 million people 1907 peak year over 1 million people iv 1980 present Latin Americans III Why immigrate to America And where i Opportunity economic money as a motivator ii Find a better life escape a crappy life in Europe religion weather farming and labor IV City Life i cultural support a China Town Little Italy Bowery Pole town etc i Escaped the prejudice from native born b usually men arrived alone between the age of 15 Americans 40 c Arrived in Philadelphia Boston or Ellis Island most stayed in urban areas like Chicago NYC St Louis etc i 700 increase in city population between 1850 and 1900 ii Employment a Worked long enough to EITHER bring the rest of the family over OR make enough to go home and live the good life i 1 3 immigrants went home iii Prejudice from native born Americans 1 V Living conditions i bad stuff crowding poverty dirt and disease a Tenement buildings average had 6 rooms and 18 5 people living in it had no sewage system ii good stuff close community attractions of city life VII Fears of immigrants among native born Americans i their Catholicism ii their threat to natives jobs a Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 iii iv Immigration Restriction League a Demanded a literacy test VIII Immigrants and Urban Reform their radicalism and Marxist socialist politics i IX Jacob Riis i ii iii iv v Jacob Riis and How the Other Half Lives Actually cared about poor living conditions Tried to take immigrants and Americanize them Gets a job a reported on the streets of NYC Takes photos of poverty to inspire Americans to help immigrants Inspires the Progressive movement 2
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