MONDAY-
Step Three- Inspection- Passengers were inspected for contagious diseases such as cholera, plague, smallpox, typhoid fever, yellow fever, scarlet fever, measles, and diphtheria. If immigrants had any of the diseases they would be deported. Sick children age 12 or older were sent back to Europe alone. IN total, about 20% of those arriving at Ellis Island were detained for medical treatment or a legal hearing. 80% were free to go after only a few hours. Only 2% of the immigrants seeking refuge in America would fail to be admitted.
TUESDAY- videos
Step Four- Beyond Ellis 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 New York City or the railroad ticket office to go anywhere in the country that they wanted.
Why were immigrants disliked in the US in the late 1800's/early 1900's? took jobs/different religion/racism/kept rages low
Chinese Exclusion Act -1882 -Banned all Chinese immigration to the US from 1882-1902
Gentleman's Agreement -1907 -Informal agreement between the United States and Japan. The goal was to reduce tensions between the US and Japan- Discuss Russo-Japanese War and School Segregation. Japan agreed not to issue passports for Japanese citizens wishing to work in the continental United States. The US agreed to: 1.) Accept the presence of Japanese immigrants already living in the US 2.) Permit the immigration of wives, children, and parents. 3.) End legal discrimination against Japanese-American children in California schools
Why Did Cities Grow So Fast? Immigrants/Farmers moved to the city/African-Americans moved to the cities/cities offered more jobs and opportunities
WEDNESDAY-
Problems in the City- cramped, old, dirty housing-tenements - lack of good transportation -disease was common -streets were filthy -crimes -fire -poverty due to low pay at work
Jacob Riis -"How the Other Half Lives (showed people what poor people looked like/other bad half)
Dumping garbage in New York Harbor -late 1800's
THURSDAY-
Solutions to Cramped, dirty, old Housing tenements
Cities put restrictions on building wood frame structures in the center of the city
It caused fires to spread quickly
Cities encouraged the construction of lower income dwellings on the city’s outskirts
So fires don’t start and kill people
Push the poor people to the outside to make the city beautiful
The Tenement House Act of 1867 defined a tenement for the first time and set construction regulations
One of these requirements was one toilet per 20 people
Tenement House Law-1901
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 1920s and especially the 1930s with FDR’s new deal
The first fully government built public housing project opened in New York City in 1936
Solutions to Lack of good transportation
Electric streetcars
Automobiles
Subways-New York City
Airplanes -Wright Brothers
FRIDAY- no school
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