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Chapter 7 Changes in American Life 1880-1914

** Essential Questions ** Why take the risk? Was it worth it?

** Unit Questions ** What was it like for immigrants as they traveled to, arrived at, and lived in the United States? How did the immigration experience differ for different immigrant groups?

** Content Questions ** Why did immigrants leave their homes to come to the United States between 1870 and 1930? What was life like for immigrants?What is immigration and emigration?

[|Immigration vs. Emigration]

**Emigration** – **Leave** one country to settle in another.

**Immigration** – to **enter** a country to settle there.

Check out the BrainPop on Immigration

**Homework:** Where are my ancestors from?

// A Changing America: // // Traveling Steerage // // A Day Ellis Island //

Chapter 7 Project Description - Why Take the Risk?

Resources

Hmong Association of Green Bay, Inc. 424 W. Walnut St., Green Bay, WI 920-437-4550 []

[|The Peopling of America] – This is a site that has a timeline/graph of immigration in America from 1790-2000.

[|Passenger Search] – This is a seach site from Ellis Island. Students can use this to find someone to pretend to be. Try using the advanced search to chose an ethnicity.

[|Scholastic’s Immigration Page] – This page has a story about a boy whose family came from Poland and why they left their country to come to America.

[|Family histories] – This page is about several families and their reasons for coming to America.

Immigration: The Living Mosaic of People, Culture, and Hope – This site has many countries background during immigration time.

[|Interactive tour of Ellis Island] – This goes through Ellis Island and what would happen as immigrant ships came in.

Industrialization

Section 1 - Cities Grow and Change

[|Streetcars]



**Ch 7 Section 2 - The New Immigrants** In this section, you will learn about how millions of new immigrants adjusted to the United States.





**Ch 7 Section 3 - Segregation and Discrimination ** In this section, you will learn about the discrimination against racial minorities in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Vocabulary
 * // Chapter 7 – Section 3 // ||  ||
 * **__ Racial discrimination __** – treating others differently because of race. || **__ Jim Crow __** – laws that said segregation in public places was o.k.  ||
 * **__ Segregation __** – separation of whites and blacks || **__ Plessy vs. Ferguson __** – Supreme Court ruling that said segregation was o.k.  ||
 * **__ Booker T. Washington __** – African American leader who worked to achieve equality || **__ W.E.B. Dubois __** – African American leader who fought segregation  ||
 * **__ NAACP __** – organization that promoted greater rights for African Americans || **__ Ida B. Wells __** – African American journalist who led the fight against lynching  ||



Section 4


 * // Chapter 7 – section 4 // ||
 * **__ Mass culture __** – a common culture that a large number of people follow || **__ Joseph Pulitzer __** – owner if the New York World  || **__ William Randolph Hearst __** – owner of the New York Morning Journal  || **__ Department store __** – store that sells a variety of items  ||
 * **__ Mail-order catalog __** – books filled with sales items that allow people to order goods through the mail || **__ Leisure __** - free time  || **__ Vaudeville __** – live entertainment that featured a mix of song, dance, and comedy  || **__ Ragtime __** – blend of African American and European music  ||