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2 What just happened and how did it make you feel?

3 Number a piece of paper 1-8Leave space in between Look at the pictures Make observations

4 Chapter 20 Immigration

5 Old Immigrants - New Immigrants - Travel /Steerage - Immigration Centers Ellis Island – Angel Island/Chinese – El Paso, Texas/Mexicans -

6 City Life Immigrants settled in neighborhoods with others from the same country: languages, food, customs, etc. Opened shops, newspapers, churches, aid organizations (benevolent societies) Many lived in city tenements (poorly built, overcrowded apartments)

7 Work – low paying factory work, sweatshops (clothing), some private businessesOpposition Nativism – Chinese Exclusion Act –

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9 Challenges faced by new immigrantsEducation Work Challenges faced by new immigrants Culture Living Conditions

10 Let’s Make it Relevent

11 Time for you to form an opinion…educate your self on the immigration issue today.What are the recent reforms Ask your classmates What do the presidential candidates say

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14 If the Yankees Congress can keep the yellow man out, what is to hinder them from keeping us out to?

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16 In 1951 the immigration historian Oscar Handlin wrote in his book “The Uprooted”: “Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.” Immigrants have provided the labor to build up our nation, transform its culture and define who we are as Americans. Despite the importance of immigrants to our economy, society and culture, the country has not always welcomed immigrants… People have come to these shores for economic opportunity or to escape religious, political or other persecution. Immigrants have tried to transplant their values and culture from their homeland, but by the second generation have usually found themselves adapting to their new circumstances. Upon their arrival, immigrants have had to find a way to earn a living, most as workers, but also as farmers and entrepreneurs. While confronting discrimination in their new land, immigrants have transformed both themselves and America.

17 Define exclusion. Historical Examples Daily Life ExamplesReligious dissenters from Europe Women’s lack of full citizenship Property and education requirements for voting Segregation in the South Discriminating immigrants Cliques in school Dress codes College requirements All discrimination Immigration restrictions Define exclusion. The act or practice of excluding (keep or shut out; prevent from entering)

18 Review the Timeline in pairs. Find incidents of inclusion and exclusion.

19 Has our look at immigration changed over time?What world events caused change in our policies? What different immigration groups are referenced? Are you surprised at you tally? Terms: Act, Execute, Prohibit…

20 Massacre at Rock Springs

21 Wyoming's Memory Revived of Massacre of Chinese Mine Workers a Century AgoFebruary 09, 1986|JOE McGOWAN Jr. | Associated Press Writer and Associated Press ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. — A century ago, a pick-and-shovel fight between white and Chinese workers in an underground coal mine in Rock Springs spread to the surface. In the ensuing hours, whites killed at least 28 Chinese, sacking and burning homes throughout Rock Springs' Asian community. Today, only a few Chinese families live in this southwestern Wyoming city of 20,000. There is no memorial to what became known as the Rocky Springs Chinese Massacre, no evidence of what newspaper reports at the time called "the hurried exit of John Chinaman" and the burning of "Hong Kong." No Burial Ground There is not even a burial ground for the massacre victims, apparently because all of the bodies were cremated and the ashes returned to China. Whites at that time generally would not allow Asians to be buried in white cemeteries. About 600 survivors fled on foot east and west of here along the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. They carried with them whatever food, clothing and valuables they had been able to snatch from their besieged homes.

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23 If you could sum up what you learned today about American immigration it would be….

24 What is your immigration background?Homework What is your immigration background?