PPT-Why People Become Immigrants

There may be a number of reason why a person would want to leave their place of birth War poor economic and educational opportunities religious persecution terrorism and natural disaster are a few push factors. Lesson 3 - . The Trip to America – Are We There Yet? . Objectives. Students will develop a sense of empathy with the experiences of . immigrants . who came to America. . Students . will understand that societies and cultures are diverse, have . Emigration. : the act of leaving one’s country to settle in another. Immigration. : the act of moving into a new country. Why would someone leave his or her homeland to make a long journey to a new country?. Chapter 14, section 1. Main Idea: . *In the mid-1800’s, millions of Europeans came to the U.S. hoping to build a better life.. Why It Matters Now:. *These German, Irish, and Scandinavians had a strong influence on American culture.. Europeans. 1870-1920. 20,000,000 Europeans came to America. Came to New York. Reasons for coming to America:. Famine. Land Shortages. Religious and Political persecution. Birds of passage- . planned to come to America to make some money and then return to their homelands.. The Triumph of Industry. Immigration & Urbanization. The South & West Transformed. Issues of the Gilded Age. Immigration and Urbanization. 1865-1914. The New Immigrants. “new” immigrant. Steerage. Lesson 3 - . The Trip to America – Are We There Yet? . Objectives. Students will develop a sense of empathy with the experiences of . immigrants . who came to America. . Students . will understand that societies and cultures are diverse, have . .. . The production of iron and steel rose dramatically and western resources like lumber, gold, and silver increased the demand for improved transportation. . Railroad . development boomed as trains moved goods from the resource-rich West to the East. I. IMMIGRANTS AND URBAN CHALLENGES. Mid-1800’s . L. arge . numbers of immigrants crossed the Atlantic ocean . T. o . begin new lives in America.. Between 1840 – 1860 in the U. S.. More . than 4 million immigrants . and . Urban Life. Images from Google Images. http://images.google.com/images. Video clip. Immigrants coming to America. New Wave of Immigrants. Mid 1800s to early 1900s- A flood of Immigrants to the U.S.. 1870-1920. 20,000,000 Europeans came to America. Came to New York. Reasons for coming to America:. Famine. Land Shortages. Religious and Political persecution. Birds of passage- . planned to come to America to make some money and then return to their homelands.. “Our synagogue was in a room with the windows blacked out. We were afraid to speak Yiddish on the streets. We often had to hide from people who came to persecute the Jews.”. “During the pogrom . “Pull” factor. A reason or force that causes people to choose to move to a new place. Know-Nothing Party. Political party in the United States during the 1850s that was against recent immigrants and Roman Catholics. The Lure of America. Old Immigrants. - mostly Protestant from northwestern Europe . Irish, British, German, French. Arriving between 1800-1880. New Immigrants. - mostly south and eastern Europe. Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese. 1920’s. Government (return to Laissez-Faire end of Progressivism). Return to Normalcy. Americans want to return to isolationism and laissez-faire. Teapot Dome Scandal. Worst scandal of Harding Admin (Navy oil leased to Rep. backers).