Immgrants and Irbanization
Chapter 7: Immigrants and Urbanization
Section 1: The New Immigrants
I. Through the Golden Door A. Immigrants wanted to escape famine, land shortages (pop of Europe doubled in 100 years), religious, and/or political persecution (Russia drives out Jews), and some intended to earn money and return home (birds of passage) 1. Old immigrants: 1800 – 1880 10 million immigrants came from northern and western Europe (GB, Ireland, Germany, Scandinavian countries) a. Mostly Protestants 2. New Immigrants: 1891 – 1910 70% of the 12 million immigrants entering the US came from southern and eastern Europe (Hungary, Russia, Italians, etc) a. Mostly Catholic, Jewish, Greek Orthodox b. Also thousands of Chinese, Japanese, Arabs 3. Businesses lied to foreigners about the advantages in the US a. Businesses wanted cheap labor and profits and competed with the rest of the world for the immigrants 4. Many Natives blamed immigrants for all of society’s ills a. Scared of their beliefs (religion and culture) b. Cheap labor robbed them of jobs (work for less than a Native born American) 5. Adolphus Busch left Germany in 1857 with three of his brothers and moved to St. Louis, Missouri a. Adolphus Busch Co-founder of Anheuser-Busch with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser b. Anheuser-Busch's best known beers include brands such as Budweiser, the Busch and Michelob families c. One of the reasons prohibition was passed under the 18th Amendment (Jan 29, 1919) is based on the fact that some of the founders of beer companies in the U.S. were from Germany (WW I fought the Germans) B. 1851 – 1883 300,000 Chinese immigrants arrived b/c of the California Gold Rush (1848) 1. Helped build nation’s railroads
Section 1: The New Immigrants
I. Through the Golden Door A. Immigrants wanted to escape famine, land shortages (pop of Europe doubled in 100 years), religious, and/or political persecution (Russia drives out Jews), and some intended to earn money and return home (birds of passage) 1. Old immigrants: 1800 – 1880 10 million immigrants came from northern and western Europe (GB, Ireland, Germany, Scandinavian countries) a. Mostly Protestants 2. New Immigrants: 1891 – 1910 70% of the 12 million immigrants entering the US came from southern and eastern Europe (Hungary, Russia, Italians, etc) a. Mostly Catholic, Jewish, Greek Orthodox b. Also thousands of Chinese, Japanese, Arabs 3. Businesses lied to foreigners about the advantages in the US a. Businesses wanted cheap labor and profits and competed with the rest of the world for the immigrants 4. Many Natives blamed immigrants for all of society’s ills a. Scared of their beliefs (religion and culture) b. Cheap labor robbed them of jobs (work for less than a Native born American) 5. Adolphus Busch left Germany in 1857 with three of his brothers and moved to St. Louis, Missouri a. Adolphus Busch Co-founder of Anheuser-Busch with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser b. Anheuser-Busch's best known beers include brands such as Budweiser, the Busch and Michelob families c. One of the reasons prohibition was passed under the 18th Amendment (Jan 29, 1919) is based on the fact that some of the founders of beer companies in the U.S. were from Germany (WW I fought the Germans) B. 1851 – 1883 300,000 Chinese immigrants arrived b/c of the California Gold Rush (1848) 1. Helped build nation’s railroads