" America" Music Video

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.

" America" Music Video

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!