1. Describe the immigration trends for historical immigration

2. Summarize historical immigration in your own words and

apply it to a fictional immigrant.

Learning Targets

30,000-15,000 yrs. ago: The First Immigrants

• From Asia, crossed land bridge “Beringia”

• Settled across Americas

• Following food (Mammoth)

1600-1700s: Colonization

• English, Africans, Scots, and Germans

• by 1790, 4 million Europeans & 1 million Africans

• settled on East Coast

• reasons to immigrate:o cheap laboro available land o religious and political freedom

Close your Notebooks!

On your whiteboard, write down the three main reason people immigrated to America during colonial times.

Compare at tables and discuss.

1815-1880: First Wave of Immigration

• “old immigrants” - 15 million • most from NW Europe; some Chinese

• settled in Midwest and West

• reasons to immigrate:o Westward Expansion

1815-1880: First Wave of Immigration

• “old immigrants” - 15 million • most from NW Europe; some Chinese

• settled in Midwest and West

• reasons to immigrate:o Westward Expansion o Potato Famine

1815-1880: First Wave of Immigration

• “old immigrants” - 15 million

• settled in Midwest and West

• reasons to immigrate:o Westward Expansion o Potato Famine o Industrial Revolution

• most from NW Europe; some Chinese

1815-1880: First Wave of Immigration

• “old immigrants” - 15 million

• settled in Midwest and West

• reasons to immigrate:o Westward Expansion o Potato Famine o Industrial Revolution o Homestead Act

• most from NW Europe; some Chinese

1815-1880: First Wave of Immigration

• “old immigrants” - 15 million

• settled in Midwest and West

• reasons to immigrate:o Westward Expansion o Potato Famine o Industrial Revolution o Homestead Act o Transcontinental Railroad

• most from NW Europe; some Chinese

1815-1880: First Wave of Immigration

• “old immigrants” - 15 million

• settled in Midwest and West

• reasons to immigrate:o Westward Expansion o Potato Famine o Industrial Revolution o Homestead Act o Transcontinental Railroado new steamships

• most from NW Europe; some Chinese

Close your Notebooks!

Reflect on the reasons people immigrated during the First Wave.

Which reason do you think caused the most immigrants to come and why? Write this on your whiteboard.

Compare at tables.

1880-1914: Second Wave of Immigration• “new immigrants” - 15 million • most from Eastern and Southern Europe

• settled in cities (Boston, NY, Chicago)• reasons to immigrate:

O Familyo Factories o Ethnic Clustering o Russian Pogroms

Close your Notebooks

Why do you think so many immigrants from the Second Wave settled in cities? Write this on your whiteboard.

Share at tables!

Processing

Reflect on today’s lesson without looking at your notes.

On your whiteboard, write down everything you remember about historical immigration.

Write as much as possible without looking at your notes!

When you are done, look back at your notes to see what you missed and compare at tables.

Homework #1:

1. Explain three major differences between the first wave of immigration and the second.

2. Write a paragraph about an imaginary immigrant who came during the second wave (where from, why coming, where settled).

DUE Tuesday, 9/13!