Urbanization and Immigration

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• Both immigrants and farmers began to migrate to the cities

  • Immigrants migrated to the cities because they lacked both money and experience needed to settle in farmland

  • Farmers and Americans that lived in rural areas migrated because they offered better paying jobs and the cheap land that was once plentiful was no longer available

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• Rapid growth in the cities lead to two new things.

  1. Skyscrapers

  2. New modes of transportation

     1. Electric trolley cars

     2. Subway system

  
  

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• Between 1865-1914 [end of Civil War and start of WWI, 25 million people immigrated to the United States.

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• Culture shift also in terms of religion; Catholics went from 

  5% to 17% of population.

  
  Most people that immigrated would stay close to others who were from the same place originally, creating their own places where they spoke native languages, rebuild their churches, synagogues, clubs, ect from their homeland.
  
  

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After the Civil War many people from China came over, mid 1800s China suffered:

• Unemployment

• Poverty

• Famine

• Civil War 

Japanese immigrants came over too but once they started to industrialize and have hardships on the economy people stayed more

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• hostility towards immigrants by Native born people

• Focused on: Jews, Asians, & E. Europeans

  
  

  Nativist opposed immigration: 

  • Catholicism would overtake 

  • Immigrants undermined American workers because they would work for low wages and be strikebreakers

  
  
  

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• Gentlemen's Agreement, (1907), U.S.-Japanese understanding in which Japan agreed not to issue passports to emigrants to the United States, except to certain categories of business and professional men.

  
  

  
  
  

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• Grab an AP book from the shelf if you haven't already!

• Turn to page 341 and read the section about the Chinese Exclusion Act. There will be 4 short answer questions to follow!