Monday September 19

[8Brittany]

Work day project due Thursday.Ch. 7.1: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?Sources-1.Text BookNotes1. Through the "Golden Door"A. Europeans1. Many people came over to escape religious persecution. Rising population resulted in scarcity of farmland. The U.S was supposed to have plentiful jobs.2. 20 million Europeans came over between 1870-1920. Around a million people arrived from Austria-Hungary. Russia drove out whole villages of Jews.B. The West Indies and Mexico1. From the West Indies(Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rica and other islands) about 260,000 immigrants arrived in the Eastern and Southern part of the US between 1880-1920.Left because jobs were scarce.2. Mexicans immigrated to find jobs and flee political turmoil. The 1902 National Reclamation Act encourage irrigation.2. Life in the New LandA. A Difficult Journey1. 1870 immigrants traveled by steamship.2. Taveled in ships cargo hold and diseases spread quickly.B. Ellis Island1. Had to pass inspections, held at Ellis Island in the New York Harbor.2. 20% were held a day before inspection and 2% got denied entrance.3. Had to pass physical and medical exam.3. Immigration RestrictionsA. The Rise of Nativism1. Favoristism to native born, gave way to anti-immigrant groups.2. Native born American Protestants thought Roman Catholic and Jewish Immigants would undermind their democratic institutions established by their Protestant founders.B. The Gentlemen's Agreement1. Fears from the anti-Chinese agitation extended to the Japanese and other asian people. Japan raised an angry protest at the treatment of emigrant.2. President Theodore Roosevelt worked out a deal. The Gentlemen's Agreement- Japan's government agreed to limit emigration of unskilled workers in exchange of the repel of the San Francisco segregation order.