THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE

WHY DID THE IMMIGRANTS COME TO AMERICA? CROP FAILURES NO LAND OR JOBS HIGH TAXES FAMINE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION

1865-1920 30 MILLION CAME MOST CAME IN TERRIBLE

CONDITIONS IN THE LOWER LEVELS OF SHIPS

THEY CAME TO NEW YORK, BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, SAN FRANCISCO, AND SEATTLE

AT FIRST MOST IMMIGRANTS CAME FROM NORTHERN EUROPE

AFTER 1890, MOST CAME FROM EASTERN EUROPE, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND RUSSIA

ELLIS ISLAND WAS A HUGE PROCESSING CENTER IN NEW YORK CITY NEAR THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IMMIGRANTS HAD PHYSICAL EXAMS IF THEY HAD A DISEASE, THEY WERE

QUARATINED OR DEPORTED POLES AND ITALIANS WENT TO THE

MIDWEST

ASIAN IMMGRANTS

THEIR DIFFERENCES MADE THEM TARGETS OF SUSPICION

THEY WORKED ON THE RAILROAD THEIR ENTRY POINT WAS AT

ANGEL ISLAND IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY

CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT PREVENTED LABORERS FROM ENTERING THE COUNTRY

THE WEBB ALIEN LAW PREVENTED THEM FROM OWNING FARMLAND

MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS

10% OF MEXICAN’S POULATION CAME TO THE U.S.

AFTER THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION IN 1910, IMMIGRATION INCREASED

THE REACTION TO THE IMMIGRANTS IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION ACT OF 1921

LIMITED IMMIGRATION NATIVISM REAPPEARS CALLS FOR ENGLISH-ONLY TEACHING IN

SCHOOLS TIGHTER RULES FOR CITIZENSHIP MANY IMMIGRANTS WERE EXCLUDED BY

BEING REQUIRED TO PASS LITERACY TESTS