Imagration the gilded age

Immigration

• Immigration was nothing new to America. .
• Old immigration brought thousands of Irish
• Later on German people came to the new world
• They came from Western Europe

IMMIGRATION

• Started in 1880-1920
• Many groups came over
• Created more ethnic diversity in the U.S.
• They didn't have much wealth

IMMIGRATION

• Most came to America from Eli's island or Angel island
• Most originally came from the Middle East and Europe
• They didn't have to cross through country's to get there
• Most had tattered clothes

immigration

• The nationalities of the new groups of the gilded age were:
• Greek
• Polish
• Armenian
• many more of the Middle East

immagration

• Very few spoke English
• The American government was a foreign object to them
• It was hard for them to learn English
• The Americans were pretty cruel because at that time nobody liked change

IMMIGRATION

• The term "Gilded Age" was coined by Mark Twain
• It was an era of serious social problems disguised by a thin gold gilding
• It was also an era of economic growth, especially in the North and West
• American wages grew 60% from 1860 to 1890

immigration

• The Gilded Age was an era of poverty
• Railroads were a major industry, along with factories and mining
• Two nationwide depressions interrupted growth
• These were the Panic of 1873 and the Panic of 1893

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• The Southern U.S. remained economically devastated
• The Southern economy became more tied to cotton and tobacco
• They suffered very low selling prices
• African Americans in the South lost rights and power

immigration

• Despite some corruption, political elections were close
• The dominant issues were cultural and economic changes
• Reformers crusaded against child labor, civil service reform, and women's suffrage
• Immigrants sought to escape famine, land shortages, and religious/political prosecution

immigration

• "Birds of passage" moved to earn money and return to their homes
• Between 1870 and 1920, about 20 million Europeans arrived in the U.S.
• Most came from North or West Europe, along with South and East
• In 1907 alone, about 1 million people arrived from Italy and Russia

immigration

• Russian Jews were driven out of their homes by local officials
• Many other immigrants were also affected by religious prosecution
• U.S. state governments built schools, colleges, and hospitals
• Numerous religious institutions were built as well

IMMIGRATION

• Private philanthropists helped support the founding of many schools
• Parochial school systems developed for Catholics and some Protestants
• There was much research in education occurring
• Social Darwinism was a common state of mind

immigration

• Social Darwinism is basically social development.
• It naturally occurs, especially during immigration

IMMIGRATION

• many heard that North America was well populated and governed by working
• the care of the states was mainly engaged in the welfare and prosperity of labor.
• Working people began to organize labor unions.
• The best-known were the Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor

immigration

• the typical work week lasted six days, and in some industries seven.
• in 1913, there were 25,000 workers killed and approximately 700,000 hurt or disabled on the job.
• 1886, thousands of workers were on strike over this issue around the country.
• Protective Association was founded in 1887 in Iowa,

immigration

• northern European immigrants supplied much of its membership and leadership
• only 32,000 immigrants came from Italy and 17,000 from Russia
• Every immigrant who entered New York Harbor after 1886 was greeted by the Statue of Liberty, a gift to the American people from the French
• Despite setbacks, trade unionism continued to grow,

IMMIGRATION citation

• ushistory.com/first six
• http://www.sjusd.org/ last three