NEW IMMIGRANTS
By: Danielle Frederick, Taylor Gibson, Rachael Nelson, Haley Traun, Corrine Jensen and Jessica Peña.
· This is a blog about New Immigrants coming to America in 1865-1915. On this blog you will find cause and effects of immigration on the United States. Also included are different experiences of those coming through Ellis Island and Angel Island. Learn what restrictions were placed on new immigrants, job opportunities, and different ethnic groups who came and the obstacles they faced. Millions of new immigrants came to the United States seeking freedom and opportunities. Low wages, unemployment, disease, forced military conscription, and religious persecution all inspired immigrants to flee their homelands and come to the United States. The immigrants were motivated to come to the United States because it was known as the “Land of Liberty". Some immigrants faced hard times right when they got to the U.S. if they came in through Angel Island. They had to endure harsh questioning and terrible interrogators. One of the first difficulties they faced is that most could not speak English. The immigrants made small ethnic communities in order to keep their cultures. They had to do jobs that nobody wanted to do for a very low wage. These immigrants often arrived with little money and were forced into substandard housing in the worst sections of the overcrowded cities. With so many immigrants coming to the U.S., sanitation became a problem. In 1882, Congress began to pass legislation limiting immigration. This first immigration act levied a fifty-cent tax on each immigrant and prohibited people previously convicted of political offences, “lunatics,” and those likely to become public charges. Many other immigration laws were passed too. One included the Chinese Exclusion Act. Back then and still today immigrants have to overcome very hard times dealing with racism, religious persecution, and more.
Immigrants at Ellis Island
This is a picture of the Japanese immigrants in a public lodge
Anti-Immigrant Nativists
