Mon:
Forum post leaders
Individual projects family
chapter 7 immigration
push pull factors :
- push - pushing you out of the new country
- pull - pulling you into a new country
famine - lack of food
Tue:
- most immigrants now mexico, south america
- then: germany, ireland, GB,
WASP - White Angelo Saxon Protestant
bad conditions in steerage
disease
rich and 2nd class better conditions than 3rd
Wed:
Project discussion
Thu:
Project discussion
immigration
ellis/angle island
ellis island - Europe, WASP
angle island - Asia, not liked much, not WASP, different
San Francisco segregating Japanese students
cities grew fast because op population growing
industrialization
african-americans moved to the cities
cities offered more jobs and opportunities
cities offered more entertainment
problems in the cities
cramped old dirty houses
lack of good transportation
lack of safe drinking water
diseases was common
filthy streets
crime
fires
poverty due low pay at work
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