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What percentage of big cities were immigrants by 1910?
50%/half
What did they make in Boston to help transportation?
Subways
What did they do in San Francisco to help transportation?
Made street cars
What were conditions like in tenements?
Overcrowded and unsanitary
What were tenements?
2 or 3 families lived in a one-family residence
What were row houses?
single-family dwellings that shared side walls with other houses
What happened when African Americans got to cities?
Still faced discrimination and segregation; job competition with whites
Why were African Americans moving to cities?
Moved to cities to escape racial violence, economic hardship, and political oppression
What was happening with farming at the time?
New innovations in farm equipment; didn't need as many workers so people moved to cities
What was the Americanization movement?
designed to assimilate people of wide-ranging cultures into the dominant culture
Why were immigrants settling in cities?
Cities were cheapest and most convenient places to live; Offered jobs to unskilled workers
What was the Gentlemen's Agreement?
apan’s government limited emigration of unskilled workers, and San Francisco repealed the segregation order
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
banned entry to all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials
Who did nativists believe were the "right" people to come to the United States?
Western Europeans
What was nativism?
favoritism toward Native-born Americans
What did immigrants face after getting into the United States?
Had to find a place to live, a place to work, and learn a new language
What was the immigration station on the East Coast?
Angel Island
What happened at Ellis Island?
Inspections, doctor
What was the immigration station on the East Coast?
Ellis Island
How did people get to America?
Poor conditions on steamships
Where were people from the West Indies and Mexico working?
Farms
Why were the Chinese and Japanese coming to America? Where were they working?
Looking for gold; worked on the railroads
Why were people coming to America from Europe?
Needed jobs, not enough land, religious persecution
What was the biggest group of immigrants coming to America?
Europeans
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