Please Explain why you chose the answer you chose for the bellwork. (THIS SHOULD BE A COUPLE OF SENTENCES)
Please go through the "Coming to America: The Era of Mass Immigration" FLDOE Video and answer the questions below it.
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Where did “Old Immigrants” come from? (looking for general areas/regions)
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What about “New Immigrants”? (looking for general areas/regions)
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What are tenements?
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Where did a bulk of Chinese immigrants settle in the United States?
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How did the United States Government restrict Chinese Immigrants freedoms? Why did people in the United States discriminate against the Chinese Immigrants?
The photograph shows immigrants on Ellis Island in 1904.
What was the primary purpose of this facility?
processing first-class passengers arriving on
European steamship lines
processing highly skilled workers arriving from
China and Japan
processing permanent residents applying for U.S.
Citizenship
processing immigrants who mainly came from
Southern and Eastern Europe
What were the “push factors” for immigrants to come to America? (CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY)
Because they have the financial ability to
Lack of food
Poverty
Economic Depression in their home country
Religious Persecution
What were the “pull factors” for immigrants to come to America? (CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY)
Need for "unskilled" workers
The ability to make a lot of money really quick
Better opportunities for future generations
Live among those with same culture, language, and religion
How did the Immigration Act of 1882 begin to restrict immigrants from coming into the United States?
(CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY)
Banned African Americans from Entering
Added a "Head" tax of $.50 per immigrant
Banned Convicts, lunatics, idiots, charity cases
Banned single men from entering the country
Why was Ellis Island chosen as the new entry point into the United States?
They out grew their facility and needed to make a bigger, more isolated facitlity
The US Government finally saw the need for a dedicated facility for immigration processing
They wanted to give more wealthy immigrants a nice facility in which they could go through processing
They wanted immigrants to be able to see the Statue of Liberty during their processing
All Immigrants entered through Ellis Island
True
False
Why did many “new immigrants” stay in big cities? (CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY)
Were banned from many Rural areas (small towns)
Immigrants were treated poorly outside of cities
No money to buy land
No Jobs outside of the cities
Jobs always available in the city
How did Jacob Riis bring attention to them?
Burned down a Tenement buidling
Published a book about Tenements
Started a protest about Tenements
Took pictures of Tenement life
What was the significance of the “Gentlemen’s Agreement”?
Unofficially ended Japanese immigration, Japan would reduce number of passports
Officially ended Japanese immigartion, Japan would reduce number passports
This Gentlemen's Agreement had the same effect as the Chinese Exclusion act
Ended segration of Japanese Children in Schools in California
Why did immigration restrictions tighten in the 1920s, particularly with the passing of the Immigration Act of 1921?
American opinion on immigration changed following World War I
The country was getting too crowded
poor immigrants were becoming a drain on the economy
Immigration processing facilities were becoming expensive to run