7-1 drea and alex
Why did immigrants come to the US?
Better land, gold, new life, better jobs.
Where did immigrants come from?
Europe. china, japan, Mexico, west indies they settled in the east and southeast they came on steam ships across the atlantic ocean form wurope pacifit crossing from asia. traveled in steerage poor conditions. german irish british scandinavian jewish italian polish hungarian czrchs serabians slovakians greeks syrian turkish and armenian. australians new lealands canadians mexican central and south americans russiansa and mainly asians
What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here?
they had poor conditions, they traveled in steerage. which is like the storage. they had to find people with their native language and cultruals to survivs. they pooled money. they stated that all immigrants should beable to read at least 40 words in english and their native language. chinese were banned from 1882 to at least 1943 japan almost got the same thing but they fought back and just kept coming.
Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions?
because they thought that the immigrants were going to take stuff from them . they thoght tgat they should melt into their society. they thought that people who were born in america were just better. they favored british germens scandinavians and anglo saxons because they thought that they were just better. they stated that all immigrants should beable to read at least 40 words in english and their native language. they were concerned about chinease taking their jobs
7-2 DJ and shantell and austin w
Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's? 200,000 african americans moved to the north in effort to escape racial violance economic hardships and political oppression. because of segregation and discrimination.
What problems did cities face due to the rapid increase in population? the government was facing problems providing necesities for resident they had terrible housing. the were not canitary. they were very crowded. the garbage was everywhere. new york passed a law that set minimum standards for plumbing and ventilation in aprtments. they had a problem finding safe drinking water. the use of candles caused fire hazards. it was really hard to keep the ciry clean when the population grew because people would throw their trash everywhere. if something died on the street they would just keep it there becuase there is nowhere they could put it. so that caused the cities to smell. the streets were dark so the people who were poor had a good way to steal things. the cities were really dangerous
What did some people do to try to help the bad situation in the cities?the community centers in the slum neighborhoods that provided assistance to people in the area about 400 settlement houses were operation in the cities across the country the social gospol movemnt. if you helped the poor you would have salvation.
- urbanization is the growth of cities.
- most of the immigrants who came to the us in the late 1900s became dwellwers cause cities were the cheapest and most convenient place to live.
- some places also offered unskilled labors steady jobs in mill and factories
- by 1910 immigreand familes make up more than half the total population of 18 major american cities
- segresaytion and discrimination was reality in nortgern cities
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