Monday:
Chapter 7-9:
option 1: research and create a power point style presentation or video documentary on your families history
- both parents family history
- where they came from
- when where they came from
- when/why/how they came to the us
Option: you find a small group will be responsible for teaching some aspect of ch. 9 on the progressive
ch. 7:
Why did immigrants come to the US?
Where did immigrants come from?
What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here?
Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions?
immigration today:
why did people come to the united states?
- opportunities
- family
- war in other country
Why do us citizenship get upset about illegal immigration?
- they don't pay taxes
- criminals
- racism
what is birth right citizenship:
- parents are illegal, but you were born in us, you are a us citizenship
- anchor baby
legal immigration:
11.4 million illegal immigrants
mexico is where the most immigrants come from
1870-1920 20 million Europeans came to us
nativists: people supports the people who were already here
w.a.s.p.
W: white
A: angio
S: saxon
P: protestant
old immigrants:
new immigrants:
Tuseday:
where did immigrants come from?
- Germany
- Ireland
steps to america:
- leaving home- common for one person to come to america
- on boat- 95% of immigrants arriving at Ellis island( joining family) ticket coast $30(today $800), 3 types of accommodations- first class- second class- and steerage, steerage passengers were inspected at Ellis island, first class was inspected on ship. Steerage- bottom of ship, lot of diseases in steerage
- inspection
- beyond Ellis or angle island
Thursday:
- stop 4- money exchange; change money into american money
- where did people go? German went to:
- Chinese exclusion act- band Chinese immigrants
- gentleman's agreement- informal agreement the US and Japan
- the US would not restrict Japanese immigration and Japan would not allow further immigration to the US
- the goal was to reduce tensions between the US and Japan
- what was the tension? San Francisco started segregating schools( not white and black, between Japanese and whites)
- 7.2 key questions:
- why did cities grow so fast? immigration
- farmers weren't doing well so they moved to the cities, African americans moved to the cites, Chinese offered more jobs and opportunities, cities offered more entertainment.
- problems in the city- cramped, old, dirty housing, lack of good transportation, lack of safe drinking water, diseases was common, streats were filthy, crime, fires, poverty due to low pay at work.
- Jacob Riis- "How the other half lives"-
- define tenements:
Friday:
solution:
- cities put restrictions on building wood frame structures in the center of the city
- spread buildings out
- put sprinklers in to put out fires if they did start
- tenement House Law: outlawed the construction of new tenement on 25- foot lots and mandated improved sanitary conditions, fire escapes and access to light
- current tenements were updated and more than 200,000 new apartments were built over the next 15 years
- most tenements were destroyed in the 1920's and especially the 1930's with FDR's New deal
Lack of good transportation:
- electric street-late 1800's early 1900
- automobiles: there are 300 cars in the united states in 1895
- subways- new York city 1904
- airplanes- 1902- wright brothers
Problem; lack of safe drinking water:
- In late 1800's, scientist had proven that disease were spread through unsafe drinking water
- in early 1900's, chlorine was added to the water to help eliminate disease
- federal regulation of drinking water quality began in 1914 which continued to strength over decades
Disease was common and streets were filthy:
- solutions
- already mentioned horses being replaced eliminating the manure problem
- introduction of indoor plumbing
- George A. Warning Jr. - New York city 1895
- organized modern recycling street sweeping and garbage collection
Crime:
- Organized Police Force
- police became full time employees of the city-not volunteers
- in 1828, Boston established the first American police force
- new York- 1845
- Chicago- 1851
Fires:
- full time, paid firefighters
- in 1853- Cincinnati.................
Poverty due to low pay at work:
- labor unions
- minimum wage laws
- shorter hours
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