Immigration Sheet

Immigration Sheet

Questions

1) Where are they from?

2) Two reasons why they left.

3) Three places they settled.

4) Numbers.

5) Their story in America.

6) Famous

Italian Americans

1) South Italy

2) 1. To escape the miserable static existence that had been the lot of the southern Italian peasant for hundreds of years

2. a lot of natural disasters

3) 1. New York City

2. San Francisco

3. Chicago

4) 1860 - 20,000 immigrated to the U.S.

1890 - 500,000 immigrated to the U.S.

1891-1920 - 4,000,000+ living in the U.S.

1907 - 285,731 immigrated to the U.S.

1972-1973 - 8.8 million living in the U.S.

5) Jobs - strenuous manual labor for men; women took work home; children dropped out of school to find jobs; strikebreakers

Contributions - the American myths of the mafia

6) 1. Enrico Firmi - Physicist

2. John J Sirica - Watergates Judge

3. Al Capone - Gangster

Mexican Americans

1) Mexico

2) 1. They refused to accept the U.S. Annexation of Texas

2. No quota for western hemisphere immigrants

3) 1. Texas

2. New Mexico

3. Colorado

4) 1900-1964 - 1.3 million living in U.S.

Today - 10 million living in U.S.

5) Jobs - construct railroads, labor in silver and copper mines, cattle and sheep ranches

Contributions - built and agricultural empire in the west, influenced the law and architecture in the southwest

6) 1. Richard "Pancho" Gonzales - tennis champ

2. Raquel Welch - Actress

3. Cesar Chavez - Union organizer

Irish Americans

1) Northeast corner of Ireland

2) 1. Most overcrowded country in Europe

2. A fierce competition for land

3) 1. New York

2. Massachusetts

3. Pennsylvania

4) 1790 - 44,000 living in the U.S.

1830's - 15,000 immigrating to the U.S.

1901 - 35,000 immigrating to the U.S.

1970 - 277,000 living in the U.S.

5) Jobs - construction traders (built canals and roads)

Contributions - Vital factors in elections

6) 1. Andrew Jackson - President of the U.S.

2. Woodrow Wilson - President of the U.S.

3. John F. Kennedy - President of the U.S.

Gypsy Americans

1) India/Middle East, Europe

2) 1. Suffered constant persecution in Europe

2. They were never welcome anywhere they went

3) 1. Florida

2. New Mexico

3. California

4) 200,000 in the U.S.

5) Jobs - metal working, horse training, tradesmen

6) 1. "Diamond Jim" Brady - financer

Slovakian Americans

1) Rural Slovakia (the name given to the eastern part of present-day Czechoslovakia

2) 1. Miserably poor

2. Widespread unemployment during time of inflation

3) 1. Pittsburgh

2. Cleveland

3. New York

4) 1899-1910 - 377,527 entered the U.S.

1920 - 484,109 total in the U.S.

5) Jobs - miners, industrial workers

Contributions - churches, schools, organized fraternal societies, art, and folk music

6) 1. Eugene Cernah - Astronaut

2. William John Hartack - Jockey

3. Chuck Bednarik - Football Star

East Indian Americans

1) India (Punjab)

2) 1. To escape poverty/British rule

2. To become university students

3) 1. California

2. Near universities in east and Midwest U.S.

4) 1820 - 1975 - 107,446 immigrated

5) Jobs - students

Contributions - their culture

6) 1. Har Gobind Khorane - Biochemist

2. Jiddu Krishnanurti - Philosopher

Scottish Americans

1) Scotland's Highlands, Eastern Coastal Regions, and Orkney

2) 1. Frequent industrial depressions

2. Feudal agricultural system displaced and impoverished