Classwork for Wednesday 2/4/2009

DO WHATCHA KNOW!
Has your family always lived in New Orleans? Think about parents and grandparents – did they move here from somewhere else? Where? Why?
If not, why do you think people would move to the U.S.? How would they feel when they got here?

INTRO TO NEW MATERIAL
Students will watch a three-minute excerpt of the movie The Godfather, Part II.

1. What do you notice about the boy’s arrival to New York City?
2. What sights and sounds are present in the hall at Ellis Island?
3. How would you describe the boy’s treatment by immigration officials?
4. What thoughts and feelings do you imagine the boy has?

American population NOW (300 million people) come from:
• Native American ancestry (about 1 million people now)
• Brought over as slaves (forced immigration)
• Ancestors immigrated (moved from another country to the U.S.)
-vast majority of Americans have ancestors that immigrated to U.S.
-of course, first immigrants were original settlers to Jamestown, Pilgrims, etc.

SECOND WAVE OF IMMIGRATION (approximately 1861-1920)
After U.S. Civil War, immigration is UP!
Reasons immigrants came:
“PUSH”—reasons people wanted to move out of their country
• Economic: crop failures in Germany and Ireland in the 1840’s (Irish Potato Famine of
1846) ruins farmers who survived on money from small plots of land
• Economic: skilled workers and craftsmen in Europe lose jobs to factories during
Industrial Revolution
• Religious freedom: Protestants face religious persecution in Germany
“PULL”—reasons U.S. enticed people to move
• Economic: plentiful land to farm
• Economic: plentiful jobs
• Religious freedom: rights guaranteed in Constitution
• U.S. economy, especially in the Northeast, is strong
• Easier voyage: more affordable, shorter trip, more comfortable

Where did new immigrants come from?
• Some still come from Western Europe (England, Ireland, Germany)
• More and more coming from Southern and Eastern Europe (Italy, Greece)
• Also coming from Asia (China, Japan) and settling on west coast of U.S.

Whereas most immigrants before 1860 came for farming, after 1860 more immigrants come for jobs in cities.
• Overwhelmingly settled in large cities like New York and Boston, or San Francisco on the west coast
• Lived in neighborhoods where their countrymen settled
• Immigrants were expected to work—built most of infrastructure of cities, built railroad lines, most of the time for less pay because of discrimination

emigrant/immigrant – migration from/to a place
urbanization - the process by which more and more people come to live in cities
quota – a limitation on the number of immigrants allowed into a country
assimilation - the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
Chinese Exclusion Act – an 1882 law that banned Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S.

GUIDED PRACTICE
As a class, we will complete Analyzing Photographs questions for White Americans Protest the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Next, you will work with your table to complete SOAPS on the primary source A Slovenian Boy Remembers Tales of the Golden Country.

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE
You many choose to examine one of two primary sources: Emma Lazarus Praises the New Colossus or Immigrants on an Atlantic Liner. Complete SOAPS if you choose the Lazarus poem, and the Analyzing Photographs questions if you choose the photograph.

LEARNING LOG
What hopes did the immigrants have when entering the U.S.? What fears did they have? What difficulties did the immigrants face when entering the U.S.?