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Immigration Unit PPT. Mr. Macpherson 9/10 th grade Resource Lab. Day 1. Warm-up. You’ve just been elected the ultimate ruler of a new country. Think: How would you design your perfect society? What rules does it have? What type of things does your society value?
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Immigration Unit PPT Mr. Macpherson 9/10th grade Resource Lab
Warm-up • You’ve just been elected the ultimate ruler of a new country. • Think: How would you design your perfect society? What rules does it have? What type of things does your society value? • Think of it this way… you’re a “founding father (or mother)” of a country. • Create a list of the top 10 rules in your society or country. Be ready to share and justify your answers.
Your rules! If you ran a country… • Now it’s your turn to decide and be immigration police. • Read the following scenarios and decide: • Do you want this person in your country?
History of Immigration Outline Colonial Old New Current Issues/ Update WOW! From 1865 to 1900 13.5 million people arrived from abroad!
Colonial Immigration Ran from the first people from England to Declaration of Independence Places of Origin: English, Scotch-Irish, German, Swedish, Dutch and African Reasons: political and religious freedom, economics, and as slaves Settled on east coast Africans eventually settled in the South
Problems Contributions • Native American conflicts • Building farms homes and a new life in unknown territory • Language • Government • Religion • Cultural Traditions
Old Immigration Reasons • Ran from est. of U.S. until about 1850 • Most from Northern and Western Europe, especially Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia • Famine from failure of the Potato Crop in Ireland • Revolutions in Germany • Economic Opportunity
Difficulties Contributions • Irish and German Catholics often faced hostility on arrival • Many feared competition for jobs from the new immigrants • RR s and Canals • Labored in factories. • Brought advanced farming techniques • Idea of Kindergarten and other educational techniques
New Immigration • From 1850 to 1924 • From Southern and Eastern and Europe, Usually Poland, Italy ,and Russia as well as substantial numbers of Japanese and Chinese
Reasons Places • Hope for greater economic opportunity • Political Freedom • Religious Freedom • Cities, especially industrial centers and ports • Often were concentrated in Ghettos • Asian Immigrants settled on the West Coast (usually California)
Difficulties Contributions • Fear of losing their religious and cultural heritage • Reactions of fear and hostility from native born Americans • Discrimination in jobs and Immigration • Competition from other minority groups • Italian and Jewish girls Worked in Sweatshops of the garment industry • Poles and Slavs labored in coal mines and steel mills of Pa. And Midwest • Chinese built transcontinental RR and aided expansion as well as contributing to U.S. cultural diversity
Reaction to Immigration Brought new wave of Nativism Often Racism came from descendants of Old Immigrants Belief was traditions of Immigrants have negative impact on U.S. society Felt Immigrants kept wages low Jokes and stereotypes common Tried to Influence law against natives
Immigrants and Society: Theories of Different Absorption • Assimilation: Immigrants disappear into established culture. Give up traditions and attitudes to be accepted. • Pluralism: recognizes that groups do not always lose distinctive characters. Can live with each group making different contributions. Often called Salad Bowl Theory • Melting Pot Theory: People from Various cultures met in U.S. to form new American. • Groups not easily distinguished (all one new mixture)
