July 4,

Birthday________
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Stockhom

September 22, 1910

U.S.S Black Tornado

Lars Ulrich

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Italy

Date of Departure: 1890-1920

Your Immigrant Identity

Bulgaria
Scandinavia
Names

Russia/Polan
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Germany
Last UNTRY
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Austria-Hungary
Armenia
Bohemia

Names

Norway
Names

Roberto

Oskar

Names

Hans

Lucia

Helga

Drago

Kristof

Alfonzo

Maria

Ivan

Jennifer

Vito

Vladimir

Santiino

Janik

Katerin

Katerina

Nicolo

Drazen

Eugene

Lars

Cosatnza

Julia

Nicholas

Oly

Berta

Siegrid

Anastasia

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Most ships were made in the United States
Name of Ship you get to make
it up!?
Port H. M. S.
Port
Ports
England
Salerno

Shkoder

Ports

Oslo

Messina

Split

Riga

Stockhom

Brindisi

Trieste

Goteborg

Venizia

Hamburg

Saint
Petersburg

Danzig

Danzig

CITY
Port` of Departure -

or in?

The Immigration Experience 1890-1

Date______________Block____
Notes and Journaling
Name______________________

*The two pie charts are of

immigration in 1880 and
1910.
*By 1910 immigration from E.
and S. Europe increased
dramatically from 27% to 73%.
Why start coming?
*At the same time W.
European immigration
declined from 49% to 16%.
Why stop coming?
*Immigration from other
PULL
Kaiser German placesPUSH
was cut in half from
King
24% to 11%.
*land
*failing farms
Tsar Russia King*No
ChineseChinese
*businesses
*bad
Exclusion Act
*jobs $
businesses
*education
*no jobs
*freedom
*high rents
*Jews
*natural
(pogroms in
disasters
Russia)
(volcano in
Italy)
*diseases

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Whats it like on the ship?

packed, 1200-2000, people from different

countries, different languages, culture, dress,
steerage class (located by boiler room), 2 to 2
week voyage dirty, filthy, stinking etc. seasick (vomit), suffocating, food, bring some,
water (beer, wine, schnapps, vodka), Who do you
meet? adults, children? What do you do to pass
the time? talk about dreams, make plans
Is it a palace or a prison? Imposing? Looks
like a castle! Describe seeing the Statue of
Liberty! Peace, freedom opportunity
reliefescape from pasta new beginning
starting over a chance at a brighter
future better lifesecuring a future for
your children Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears

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The Dreaded Medical Examination:

In America they wanted to make sure you were fit to
enter U.S.? The immigrants came from all over the
world to Ellis Island, the port of New York. Ellis
Island was legendary. Most immigrants were from
rural areas and not used doctors. The Medical Exam
more than anything else scared them. It was the
thing that could get you sent back. Many would
rather die than go back.
The famous rows and rows of the Registry Hall.
crowded, confusion, hanging on to family, over
5,000 people, the dreaded Exit Examination:
ask you up to 30-40 question
likely to be a public charge? L.P.C. without
papers W.O.P. taking jobs from Americans,
women need escort male to pick them up

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The kissing post at Ellis Island. And oh,

boy, we just ran. the stairs that pass
through to meet loved ones of be detained
they find servicing centers: railway tickets,
concessions, telegraph, money exchange
in New York, backbreaking jobs, subsistence
wages, railroads to be built, cows to
slaughter, steel to be shaped, work 80hrs,
$10 a week, freedom America beckons,
but Americans repel America needs workers
but Americans are afraid of disease, costs,
losing jobs after Ellis Island immigrants
would then be released into New York or take
trains to other parts of U.S.A. many would
find their way into Ethnic Enclaves (crowded
areas of same ethnic groups).
Once through Ellis Island many immigrants
found themselves in Ethnic Enclaves:
crowded, filthy, disease ridden, rat infested.
60% of babies died in first year. Lived in
city-tenement buildings, run-down, unsafe
as much as $5 a night at first. Find a
place to live in tenements with 6-7 floors
fire hazards and 8 to 10 people living in a
single room. Urban experience flooded
streets with garbage, human wastes, lunge
disease, tuberculosis. Month rents might
be $10 to $20 dollars. Estimated 1300
people in 120 rooms. Build shanties extra
wood and whatever in alleyway.

Working conditions child labor was legal

(moral). Young girl at spinning machine.
America was rapidly industrializing (machines
making stuff, commodities, materials and
goods to buy, to make life easier). America
need cheap labor and lots of it. Many were glad
to leave the farm for the city life. But workers
were exploited (taken advantage of). Low
wages, high rents. Work was dull, dangerous,
and darn hard, unsanitary, poor ventilation, hot,
fumes, smoke, all for low wages and long
hoursMake as much as $16 a week (have to
pay for food, clothing, and shelter). Kids made
half that. Might have to work 12 to 16 hours a
day (as much as 100 hours a week). No
weekends, no holidays, no sick, no benefits, no
medicalboys in coal mines
AMERICAN NATIVISM: Americans reflect on the
rising tide of immigrationby 1921 they are ready to
close the gates. Here we see a poor immigrant with
everything he owns. We also see a group of wealth,
successful businessmen that want to deny the
immigrant entrance. Of course, in the shadows we
see what the successful men once were, immigrants
themselves. The shadows of the wealthy men loom
over them to remind us that America is a place of
opportunity. And that for them to stop this immigrant
suggest hypocrisy and selfishness not to mention
racism, prejudice, and ethnocentrism (fear of
foreigners). American Nativism is fear, hostility,
suspicion, and seeing new immigrants as a threat
because of their differences, religious, political,
social customs saw as low class, health risk,
taking American jobs

Work in America at the Turn of the 20th Century!

INVENTIONS

EMPLOYMENT

Immigrants
would have
been amazed,
mystified at
American
ingenuity:

Work would have

been relatively
readily available:
factories make most
of what we have now!

electricity
lightbulb
x-ray
phonograph
fans
car
(automobile,
horseless
carriage)
washing
machines
motion pictures
refrigerators
hot plates
vacuums
threshing
machine

spindle factory
coal mines
steel worker
skyscraper builder
subway system
train conductor
cereal
cola
cigars / cigarettes
clothes
hat (rare bird
feathers West)
shoes / boots
furniture maker
olive oil
fruit stand
grocer

JOBS /
CARREERS

JOBS /
CARREERS

athlete
logger
chef
auto mechanic
doctor
lawyers
professor/teacher
server
firemen
detective
writer
reporter
soldier
politicians
dancer
singer
homemaker
secretary
clergy
garbage man
postal worker
translator
police oficer

engineer
Vaudeville talent
(manager,
worker,
stagehand, etc.)
military / soldier
mason (bricklayer)
shoe maker
seamstress
tailor
postal worker
SYMBOLS
Quilt
Sculpture/paintin
g
Cross/star of
David
Ring/jewelry
Writing

Name__________________________

The Widget Facto

Date______________Block________
Concepts
division of labor quality control assembly line turnover capital
specialization layoffs downsizing assembly line sweatshop
mass production union nonunion open shop closed shop
Learning Targets
I can identify characteristics of the developing of manufacturing such as the
strategic use of skilled and unskilled labor, investment capital, organization of
assembly lines, and uniformity of consumable commodities.
I can recognize the essential necessity of investment capital for the possibility of
technological advances in order to expand domestic market and/or increase
military preparedness and effectiveness.

In Class
Costs: WAGES
.05 .05
.08 .08
.10 .15
.10 .15
.25 .50
$ 1.51 an
hour
12 hours a
day
$ 18.12 a day
$126.84 a
week

In History
200 Widgets
a day
200
x 6 = 1200 a
week
$3.00 a piece
$3600 a week
$3600 - $126.84 =
$3473.16
180,604.32 a year!
Overhead
COSTS
rent
raw
materials
equipment
electricity

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