Monday- Presentation improvements Round 2 (All notes on bottom)
Tuesday-Talk about immigration
Wednesday-Watch videos on Angel/Ellis Island
Thursday- Monday is our first work day. Talk about Ellis/Angel Island and chapter questions. Watch video about Jacob Riis
Friday-continue looking through Jacob Riis pictures and talk about solutions to these problems. Watch Riis and Waring video
Nativists wanted to keep people out
Steps to leave America
Step one: Leaving home
Step 2: Board ship
Step 3: Inspection
Step 4: Beyond Ellis or Angel Island
As they left Ellis Island the next stop was the Money Exchange
Cashiers exchanged paper money from countries all over Europe for American Dollars
Then it was off to NYC or the railroad ticket office to go anywhere in the country that they wanted
Where did they go?
All over the country-a lot in NYC and big cities
Japanese/Chinese went throughout CA
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
-Banned all chinese immigration to the US from 1882-1902
Gentleman's Agreement 1907
Informal agreement between 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
Tension- San Francisco started segregating schools but ONLY in SanFran
Chapter 7.2 Key Questions
Why did cities grow so fast?
-Immigrants
-Farmers moving to city
-African Americans moved to cities
-Cities offered more jobs and opportunities
-Cities offered more entertainment
Problems in City
Cramped old dirty housing tenements
Lack of good transportation
Lack of safe drinking water
Disease was common
Streets were filthy
Crime
Fires
Poverty due to low pay at work
Understand your topic when presenting
Tell a story keep it from being disjointed
Work on delivery voice tone, pronunciation, enthusiasm, speed
More pictures
Limit the amount of information on your slide but not too much
Have short bullets
Ask questions throughout
Do your sources correctly and use Easybib.com
Start Chapter 7-9 Options
-Research and create a powerpoint style presentation or video documentary on your families history
Option 2
-You and a small group are responsible for teaching some aspect of Chapter 9 on the progressive Era
Why did immigrants come to the US?
Achieve american dream/jobs/family/education/escaping wars in country
Where did they come from?
Why do US citizens get upset about illegal immigration?
Take jobs/criminals/Racism
What problems and issues did they face on the trip over and once they got here?
Why did some people what to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions?
Birthright citizenship- When two illegal immigrants have a baby in US, baby becomes citizen (anchor baby)
11.4 million illegal immigrants currently living
Solutions
Problem: Lack of good transportation
Solution:
Electric Street cars in late 1800s early 1900s
Automobiles
Subways
Airplanes
Buses in 1925
Problem: Lack of safe Drinking water:
Solution:
In the late 1800s scientists had proven that diseases were spread through unsafe drinking water
In early 1900s chlorine was added to the water to help eliminate disease
Federal regulation of drinking water quality began in 1914 which continued to strengthen over the decades
Problems: Disease was common and Streets were filthy
Solution:
Already mentioned horses being replaced, eliminating the manure problem
Already mentioned adding chlorine to water
Introduction of indoor plumbing
George A. Waring Jr-NYC 1895- Organized modern recycling, street sweeping and garbage collection
Problem: Crime
Solutions:
Organized Police Force
Became full time employees of the city, not just volunteers
In 1838 Boston established the first American police force
NYC-1848
Chicago-1851
By the 1880s all major US cities had municipal police forces in place
1911-Fingerprinting are first accepted by US courts as a reliable means of identification
Problem: Fires
Solution:
Better building codes
full time paid firefighters
in 1853 Cincinnati became the first full time paid fire fighters in the US
The Tenement House Act of 1867
Outlawed the construction of new tenements 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 1930s with FDR's New Deal
The first fully government built public housing project opened in New York City in 1936
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