CHAPTER 15

Immigrant Experiences

15.2 Why Europeans Immigrated to the United States

1840s to 1890s from Northern and Western Europe Irish, British, Germans, and Scandinavians

Late 1800s Eastern and Southern Europe Italians, Greeks, Hungarians, Poles, and Russians

Push Factors problems that cause people to move

Population Growth, Hunger, Lack of Arable Land, religious persecution

Pull Factors attractions that draw them to another place.

Free and democratic society, land, jobs b/c of industry, stories from friends

15.3 To Ellis Island and Beyond

Ellis Island Immigration Station Most immigrants when through here Medical Examination

Deported if disabled or had disease Legal Interviews

29 questions 20% failed, 2% Deported Most headed for cities, lived in cheap

housing, and settled around others from their native country

15.4 Responses to New European Immigrants

Most were not welcomed in the U.S. Lack of money and education

Help No government help Friends or family Immigrant aid society Settlement Houses Political bosses

Assimilation Mainly done through schools

Nativism Did not like immigrants, saw them as a threat

15.5 Immigration from Asia

Many immigrants came from Asia as well Mainly Chinese, but Korean, Japanese and Filipino as well Mostly Men Worked on RRs, mining, and farming They were willing to work for less money, which caused

friction Blamed for Economic Problems Lead to the Chinese Exclusion Act

Couldn’t become citizens and no more could come for 10 years

Angel Island- Ellis Island of the West

15.6- Many people came from Canada and Mexico as well, borders were relatively unguarded.