Immigration and Urbanization 18651914

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Immigration and Urbanization (1865-1914)

• By Tiffany, Elysia,
• Margaret Kelsey

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Urbanization and Immigration's
positiveEffect on American Culture
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The New Immigrants

• Southern and Eastern European immigrant arrived
  in the United States in great amounts between
  1880 and 1920
• Often unskilled, poor, Catholic or Jewish, and
  likely to settle in cites
• Italy, Greece, Poland, Hungary, and Russia

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The Push and Pull Factors

• push
• Immigrants fled from religious persecution, wars,
  political revolt, and land reform
• pull
• Plentiful land and employment, recruited for work

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The Immigrant Experience

• long voyage
• steamships were safer and faster to cross the
  Atlantic
• most traveled in steerage
• arrival
• New York Harbor Ellis Island
• San Francisco Bay Angel Island

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Immigrants Assimilate into Society

• melting pot
• some city populations had more than 40 foreign
  born
• most new immigrants stayed in cities, close to
  industrial jobs in factories
• ghettoes
• Americanized programs
• faced hostility and competition among natives

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Technological Cities

• Mass transit
• Electric trolley and subway
• Elevators
• Skyscrapers
• Central heating

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Overcrowded and Poor

• housing conditions deteriorated
• Immigrants lived in tenements
• crime
• poor sanitation
• Cholera
• Germ Theory

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Cultural Changes

• conspicuous consumerism
• sale methods change
• department stores
• brand names
• mass culture
• education increased
• training for urban careers
• new forms of entertainment

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