Post on 17-Jan-2016
LEARNING TARGETS
1.Identify places in the world from which your ancestors immigrated and share why they came to the U.S.
1.Describe historical immigration:• first immigrants• colonization• first wave of immigrants• second wave of immigrants
2.Summarize historical immigration in your own words.
from Asia, crossed land bridge, Beringia settled across Americas following food (Mammoth)
30,000 – 50,000 yrs. ago: First Immigrants
(American Indians)
1600s-1700s: Colonization
English, Africans, Scots & Germans settled on East Coast reasons to immigrate:
cheap labor available land religious & political freedom
It’s Whiteboard Time!
1. Close your notebook.2. Write down the three main
reasons people immigrated to America during colonial times.
3. Compare at tables and discuss.
settled in Midwest and West
“old immigrants” most from NW Europe ; some Chinese settled in Midwest & West reasons to immigrate:
Westward Expansion
1800s: First Wave of Immigration
15 million!
settled in Midwest and West
reasons to immigrate:Westward Expansion Irish Potato Famine
1800s: First Wave of Immigration
reasons to immigrate: Irish Potato Famine Industrial Revolution
1800s: First Wave of Immigration
reasons to immigrate: Industrial RevolutionHomestead Act
1800s: First Wave of Immigration
372,000 farms were created because of the Homestead Act
1800s: First Wave of Immigration
reasons to immigrate:Homestead ActTranscontinental
Railroad
reasons to immigrate:o Westward Expansion o Potato Famine o Industrial Revolution o Homestead Act o Transcontinental Railroad
1800s: First Wave of Immigration
reasons to immigrate:Transcontinental
Railroadnew steamships
Voyage Length1850 – 44 days
1892 – 5 ½ days
It’s Whiteboard Time!
1.Reflect on the reasons people immigrated during the First Wave.
2.Which reason do you think caused the most immigrants to come and why? Write this on your whiteboard.
3.Compare at tables.
First “Wave” Second “Wave”
Turn of the Century: Second Wave of Immigration
“new immigrants”most from East and Southern Europesettled in cities (NY, Boston. Chicago)
15 million!
Turn of the Century: Second Wave of Immigration
reasons to immigrate: family factoriesethnic clustering(i.e. Chinatown)Russian pogroms
1/3 of European Jews left E Europe
It’s Whiteboard Time!!!
1.Close your notebook.2.Reflect on today’s lesson.3.Write down everything you
remember about historical immigration.
4.Compare at tables – who remembered the most!