Ellis Island: European Immigration, c. 1900

11.2 Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization, large-scale rural-to-urban migration, and massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.

HOT ROC1. What was the government’s response to the Homestead and Pullman strikes?2. Would you have advised an immigrant who had just come to the US looking for work to join a union? Why or why not?3. Add Strike to your glossary.HOMEWORK:•Essay outline with a thesis statement for the project is due tomorrow•Study vocab for card quiz

Immigration• Share with your partner what you know about when your family

came to the US and why they came.• Open up textbook to p.200 to see the break down of where

people have come from.

WHY (did they come?)

Middle East

Africa Asia S. Pacific

Australia N + W Europe

S + E Europe

Central America

South America

Farmland

Forced :Servitude / Indentured

Factory/City Jobs

Escape/Persecution(Liberty)Family already in USDemocracy

Read p.188-189Push Factors Pull Factors

Europe, p.188-189

• Population growth leads to food shortages and fewer jobs.

Asia, p.195

Mexico, p.198Canada, p.199

“American Land”- Bruce Springsteen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPIYmjzbK7c

• What is this land of America, so many travel thereI'm going now while I'm still young, my darling meet me there

Wish me luck my lovely, I'll send for you when I canAnd we'll make our home in the American land

Over there all the woman wear silk and satin to their knees*And children dear, the sweets, I hear, are growing on the trees*

Gold comes rushing out the river straight into your hands*If you make your home in the American land*

There's diamonds in the sidewalks, there's gutters lined in songDear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long

There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working manWho will make his home in the American land

I docked at Ellis Island in a city of light and spireI wandered to the valley of red-hot steel and fire****

We made the steel that built the cities with the sweat of our two handsAnd I made my home in the American land

“American Land”- Bruce Springsteen• There's diamonds in the sidewalk, there's gutters lined in song

Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night longThere's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man

Who will make his home in the American land

The McNicholas, the Posalski's, the Smiths, Zerillis too**The Blacks, the Irish, the Italians, the Germans and the Jews

The Puerto Ricans, illegals, the Asians, Arabs miles from home***-*****Come across the water with a fire down below******

They died building the railroads, worked to bones and skinThey died in the fields and factories, names scattered in the wind

They died to get here a hundred years ago, they're dyin' nowThe hands that built the country we're all trying to keep down

There's diamonds in the sidewalk, there's gutters lined in songDear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long

There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working manWho will make his home in the American landWho will make his home in the American landWho will make his home in the American land

Immigration from Europe1st Wave 1870s-1880s:

Western and Northern Europeans (German, English and Irish Immigrants

2nd Wave 1890s-1920s:

Southern and Eastern Europeans (Italian, Jewish, and Polish immigrants

The Journey Across the Atlantic

• Steamships• No windows, little

ventilation, one toilet for hundreds of passengers

• Steerage class

Arrival in America• Ellis Island and Angel Island• 75% Ellis Island• Chinese and Japanese in

Angel Island• Statue of Liberty

• “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddles masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door”

• ~Emma Lazarus 1883, Jewish-American poet

Ellis Island• Medical Inspections:

• “Six-second exam”• Legal Interviews

• 29 Questions: What is your name? Age?

• “Do you have work waiting for you in the US?”

• 20% failed one of these• Hospital• Further interviews

• 2% Deported

Beyond Ellis Island:• Many immigrants settle in cities:

New York, Chicago, Boston• 1870—25% of Americans live in

cities• 1920—50% of Americans live in

cities • Immigrants settle near others from

their home country• “Ethnic Enclaves”

• Tenements: crowded, dirty• Settlement Houses: provide services,

such as child care and classes

Video Clip• Ellis Island: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4wzVuXPznk

• (2:12-14:40)