Describe immigration during the Gilded Age? How does it compare to the previous time period?
A Ride Across the Ocean and then… • NYC ▫ First lower Manhattan ▫ Then Ellis Island – 75% processed here! Medical examination Questioning/Paperwork Not a criminal; able to work; some money • San Francisco ▫ Angel Island Much harsher Longer Dirtier
Where do immigrants go? ? ? • 2/3 immigrants went to major cities ▫ NYC, Boston, Chicago or Philadelphia • lived in ethnic communities ▫ Why? ▫ Turn into “hyphenated Americans”
Is immigration that simple? • Read through your document packets and answer the corresponding questions. Doc 1 Doc 2 Doc 3 Doc 4 Doc 5 Putting it together
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Document 2 five cents a day $1/month
Living Conditions • Most urban immigrants lived in tenements ▫ low rent apartments built in the poorest parts of town called slums ▫ Poorly built ▫ Lacked ventilation, running water, toilets • Also served as workplace for some ▫ Cigar makers, seamstresses, et cetera
Dumbbell tenements
Other Conditions: • Infectious Diseases ▫ 60% of immigrant babies died before their first birthday ▫ Typhoid Mary, an Irish immigrant of course • Sanitation • Water ▫ Cholera, Typhoid • Fire ▫ Limited water, wood, candles, overcrowding Chicago Fire 1871
Document 3 “A house to house visit to Mulberry street [the city’s burgeoning Little Italy], in New York, will satisfy any one that there are thousands of people in this country who should never have been allowed to land here. . Many of the Russian Jews who inhabit other streets in New York, and other cities, are of no better class than the Italians just referred to. ” • The Chicago Post wrote, "The Irish fill our prisons, our poor houses. . . Scratch a convict or a pauper, and the chances are that you tickle the skin of an Irish Catholic. Putting them on a boat and sending them home would end crime in this country. ” https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=bbyo. Ub 3 mp 1 E Trump
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Five Points NYC • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=a. AWIZFq. E 6 L 4
How will the conditions of cities impact attitudes towards new immigrants?
“Destroying” America • • Spread disease Increase in crime Less intelligent America Changing American culture Lowering our wages (how? ) Taking over government (why? ) Asian immigrants viewed even more negatively** why? Nativism – Native born superior Xenophobia – fear of foreigners
Social Darwinism ▫ Social Darwinism – survival of the fittest This means what …?
Anti-Immigration Groups/Legislation • Anti-Catholic groups • Literacy tests*** (vetoed) • Chinese Exclusionary Act, 1882 -1943! ▫ Students, teachers, vacationers, gov. • Gentlemen’s Agreement (Japanese), 1907 ▫ End SF segregation, limit unskilled immigrants • Americanization movement • Discrimination in hiring, social clubs, housing, et cetera • **only want British, German, Scandinavian “stock”**
• Why is it ironic that native born had such distain for new immigrants? • How did immigrants make the Gilded Age possible? How did they make it “gilded”?
Housing
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