- Why did immigrants come to the US?
to ecsape religious conflitct
they didn't have enought land to farm and some prisoners were sent over as there punishment
chinese came in small numers- they left there homes to seek fortune in gold rush but ended up building a lot of railroads and doing mining and domestic services
the japense came to the same coast as the chinese- they also came for more opporunties
they came to escape povery and unemployment
THEY CAME FOR OPPURTUNITIES
the mexicans left to be free of political problems and to find work and to get away from ecnomic crisis
the push and pull factor
things in your country pushing you to go to the new country
and pull that is things in the country that pull you to the new coutry
where did immigrants come from?
the europeans came in the 1870-1920. 20 mil. came- golden age of immigration
came mostly from western and northern europe
What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here?
the trip over took sometimes close to or over a month,
they were really crowed, they didn't get excersise or fresh air
they were so compacted that diseases spread quickly and many didn't make it
they had no bathrooms and slept in infected beds
EILLIS ISLAND- just off the coast of new jersey. to get into the main land they had to pass inspection and had papers. If they didn't pass the physical they got sent home immediatly- only 2% were denied
after the physical they had to go to the governmeny inspector and they had to make sure they had the right papers
government- had to prove they had no criminal record, demonstate how they could work and had to have at least $25
ANGEL ISLAND- san fran, CA mostly chinese 10-40s 50,000 passes through
they got treated terrible in 1940 a fire destroyed most of it
the US wanted to deny the chinese so they asked unfair questions that the chinese wouldn't know so they wouldn't be allowed to enter the country
they people that were already in america didn't like the chinese because they would do there jobs for less so they took many jobs
the immigrants tried to find people who spoke there language and enventually built churches and tried to live close together
the American born people found them as a threat to the American way of life.
Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions?
melting pot- known as the melting pot- when people abondon there religon and beliefs and melt with other people
nativism- favoritism over other immigrants who have moved into the country,
this led to people trying to get laws on people moving into the country
they had right and wrong countries that could move into the country
right= british, german, and scandanavian
wrong=slav. latin and asian races
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anti-catholic and jew were common
they gov. made a literacy test for immigrants to make sure they could read.
Anti-asian sentiment- shut off people from asia for the next 60 years
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