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Industry and Immigration
Lesson 4 The New Immigrants
Key Terms
“new” immigrants Southern and Eastern European immigrants who arrived in the United States in a great wave between 1880 and 1920
steerage third-class accommodations on a steamship
Ellis Island island in New York Harbor that served as an immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving to the United States
Angel Island immigrant processing station that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910
Americanization belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens
“melting pot” society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture
nativism inclination to favor native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers
Academic Vocabulary
compel: to drive or urge to action
persecution: harassment or unfair punishment because of one’s beliefs
refugee: a person who flees to a foreign country to escape danger or discrimination
preliminary: happening before and leading up to something; initial
detain: to hold in prison or in custody
exclude: to leave out
activist: someone who fights for a controversial cause
Lesson Objectives
1. Compare the “new immigrants” of the late 1800s to earlier immigrants.
2. Explain the push and pull factors leading immigrants to America.
3. Describe the challenges that immigrants faced establishing new lives in America.
4. Analyze how immigrants adapted to American life while trying to maintain familiar cultural practices.
New Immigrants Seek Better Lives: Text
1. Compare and Contrast How were the “new” immigrants that came to the United States between 1870 and 1900 different from earlier immigrants? Cite specific evidence from the text. “Immigrants had always come to America for economic opportunity and religious freedom, until the 1870s the majority had been protestants from...