These essays have...
Intro
Body 1
Body 2
Body 3
Conclusion
What is the five paragraph essay format?
100
Something good about a country that makes people want to live there.
What is a pull factor?
100
This Island checkpoint in New York City was where most EUROPEAN immigrants first stepped foot on American soil.
What is Ellis Island?
100
These shops where immigrants worked were hot, crowded, dangerous, and payed only 10 cents a day.
What are sweatshops?
100
With no room to expand business, city developers looked to they sky and built these man made giants.
What are skyscrapers?
200
1st: Answer the question
2nd: Cite evidence
3rd: Extend on your answer
What is ACE format?
200
Reasons a father wants to leave his home country such as war, unemployment, corruption, lack of freedom.
What are push factors?
200
This Island checkpoint in San Francisco was where most ASIAN immigrants first stepped foot on American soil.
What is Angel Island?
200
When immigrants got of the boat, this made it difficult for them to ask questions, read street signs, and even find something to eat.
What is a language barrier?
200
Getting around Chicago in the late 1800s was incredibly difficult so the city built this means of transportation.
What is the subway?
300
Accounts of past events created by people some time after the event happened? (Books, textbooks)
What are secondary sources?
300
Religious freedom, freedom of speech, democracy, jobs
What are pull factors for coming to the United States during the 19th century?
300
This act banned Chinese immigrants from entering the United States for ten years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
300
These apartments probably smelled terrible as they were overcrowded and lacked running water and plumbing.
What are tenements?
300
New Yorkers who wanted to move into a new home with a front and backyard had to look outside the city in these quiet family neighborhoods.
What are suburbs?
400
Letters, government documents, diaries, photographs, objects, clothing
What are primary sources?
400
A Russian farmer has lost his entire harvest due to a terrible drought so he must leave the country for work.
What is push factor?
400
These Americans favored 'traditional' white Americans and made it difficult for immigrants once they arrived.
What are Nativists?
400
These immigrants were often depicted in nativists' political cartoons as having long ponytails, large front teeth, and bringing immorality, drugs, and disease to America.
What are Chinese immigrant?
400
The city of Chicago had a population of 30,000 people in 1850. By 1900 the city's population had grown to this colossal number due to waves of immigrants.
What is 1.7 million?
500
History repeats itself. So if we understand the solutions to past problems, we to understand the solutions of today's problems.
What is the reason we study history?
500
Beautiful weather year round, freedom of speech and religion, public education, blend of people from around the word, world class beaches, aloha
What are pull factors for immigrating to Hawai'i today?
500
This area of the boat was hot, humid, and full of steering mechanisms and immigrants.
What is steerage?
500
Jacob Riis, the New York City journalist, became famous for exposing the horrible life of tenement living in this groundbreaking book.
What is "How the Other Half Lives"?
500
Those who lived in the city wanted to have more fun! Amusement parks sprung up around the country. The most famous of which was in New York City and called this.