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Homes of Immigrants
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What surprises did immigrants find when coming to America?
land was expensive, sometimes if no skill they got bad, low-payed jobs which was worse than native country, discrimination
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What is emigration and immigration
immigration - act of coming into a country emigration - act of leaving a country
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Who wrote a poem to express what the Statue of liberty meant to her?
Emma Lazarus
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What happened after Civil War that made a huge number of immigrants to come into the US?
war was finished - safe, journey was faster, cheaper, more comfortable and safer. passenger ships instead of cargo ship. instead of six weeks, it took six days.
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Define tenement.
It is an apartment building which is often overcrowded and poorly kept, usually in a city slum
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Name some pulls to the US.
good government, own country might have bad government, religious persecution, potato famine(shortage of food), more land in US, letters back home, newspapers, media, advertisements, more business opportunities, better wages.
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What determined where an immigrant would stay in the U.S.? (BONUS) - For every two situations you give where some immigrant group would go to live, you get 100 points.
how much money they had, where family was settled( if already settled), which states had same climate as their home country.
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How are First Generation, Second Generation, and Third Generation different? (Bonus) - for 200 points tell the main problems with third and first generation. OR (Bonus) - for 200 points tell the main problems with third and second generation. OR (Bonus) - for 200 points tell the main problems with second and first generation.
first - tried to recreate life in home country, followed same language and cultures, spoke same foreign language, foreign newspapers, immigrant neighborhoods of same country. second - children of immigrants, public schools teaching about government and society, social interaction in public schools, being accustomed to American culture, "succeeded in crossing bridge to American side", could speak and write english third - comfortable amreican, few knew their native language, few lived in old ways in old country, no immigrant neighborhoods of same country, moved away from old immigrant neighboorhoods.
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Define the term "Melting Pot." Does this phrase apply to the US? Why or why not?
melting pot is a situation when many people from different countries come to one country and blend in as one society. America is one of those because most of the population is immigrants.
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Why did immigrants go to US and not other counties?
no king, new government, recently settled land(more land) , guidebooks, media, letters home encouraged US. free schools, no taxes, a lot of jobs, more freedom, thought of "unlimited" freedom
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When coming to US, what things did the immigrants have to sacrifice?
Well to do job(if they have), Family, House, Belongings, Being called "foreign" in home country and in US, Property, etc.
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(200 pts) - who were the New Immigrants? (200 pts) - contrast them with old immigrants
(first half) - people from southern and eastern europe, mexico, japan, china who immigrated after the civil war. (second half) - new - came after civil war, came for prosperous cities. old - came before civil war, came for huge amount of farmland
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Define nativism and give one example of nativism in the 20th or 19th century. Bonus for 100 pts( Give a modern-day example.) Daily Double!!!!
prejudice against outsiders coming into country or community. one example - Chinese exclusion act
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Contrast lives of skilled workers and lives of workers without a skill who were middle- class, and lives of workers who were poor.
skilled workers- lived in cities where their skill was in most demand for more money. they were prosperous. Lives Of people without skill in middle class- had money to buy farmland because they sold their old houses+ property. Later, they settled in cities. Poor Workers without a skill - after coming into the US, there was no one to teach them a skill and they needed to find a job quickly to raise a family or provide food for themselves. They usually got the low-payed jobs like sweeping or being a servant.
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What were urban immigrant neighborhoods like?
Six people had to fit themselves inside a huge closet. The tenements always were leaking and the floors were always wet. One family lived in 1-2 rooms, and many buildings were falling apart from neglect. They lived on top of a stable where the owner's horses were kept. There were 70 people in one apartment building. Life was very uncomfortable. The neighboorhoods usually had everyone from country.
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Why did nativists not like immigrants?
immigrants could "revolt" the culture, thought immigrants would change America for the worse, thought might be religious arguments, they thought they might revolt against the democratic government. before civil war, nativists were most afraid of the immigrants' impact on the supremacy of Protestantism. feared that immigrants will accept low wages and throw the "native people" out of work.
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How did U.S. attempt to welcome immigrants into their society.
evening school for Irish to change into American. There were English classes. There were also Americanization programs such as pamphlets and public schools to teach about the society of the U.S. The public schools allowed interaction which made the immigrants more American.
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