Immigration

1
Immigration Urbanization

• The Causes and Effects

2
Immigration and Migration

• Poverty, Persecution cause millions of people to
  leave Europe, Japan, China, Mexico, and the
  Caribbean
• Jews leave Europe b/c of pogroms-religious
  persecution
• Immigrants are forced to adapt to new language
  and new culture
• Hull house helps w/ assimilation

3
Immigration and Migration

• Changes in agriculture cause people to migrate
  from rural U.S. to cities in search of work
• B/c Inventions, like mechanical reaper, farms no
  longer need as many pple to work
• Immigrants face discrimination in their efforts
  to find jobs and housing
• Most live in tenement houses

4
Urbanization

• Influx of immigrants and migrants cause a
  population BOOM in cities
• Cities cant keep up with sanitation,
  transportation, housing, fire, crime
• City services such as sanitation are stretched to
  the limit

5
Urbanization

• Reformers try to fix urban problems through
  education, training, charity, political action
• Jane Addams- Hull House
• Jacob Riis- How the Other Half Lives
• Horace Mann- Public Education

6
Politics

• Political Machines develop to take advantage of
  the needs of Immigrants and Urban Poor.
• b/c uneducated they do not know that they are
  being cheated out of tax .
• Cont. to vote for politicians b/c politicians
  reward them w/ jobs, housing, etc

7
Politics

• City politicians use fraud and graft to maintain
  political power
• Graft-reward people who help you get elected
• Boss Tweed leader of Tammany Hall, most famous
  of them all
• Corruption in National Politics results in the
  call for civil service jobs to be awarded on
  basis of merit
• Pendleton Service Act
• Take test to get job

8
Politics

• Big businesss growing influence on politics
  defeats tariff reform that would aid wage earners
• Business takes over govt politics