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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...