The Immigrant Experience 1880 - 1920

Class Reading Together:
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus & The Angel Island Poem-Angel Island, CA

Find facts that support the journey of immigrants to Ellis Island, NY and Angel Island, San Francisco, Ca.


The Trip & Ellis Island
European Experience to America
                                   

LI Keng Wong's Journey to America


A Note of Interest from the Smithsonian Institute


   

NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

The NAACP was founded in 1909 by W.E.B. Dubois  it is the oldest civil rights organization in the U.S. It was bi-racial organization that  was known as the National Negro Committee that was hugely funded by the Jewish community in New York City.  Their mission was to bring an end the Jim Crow Laws as well as the KKK.

      Use your graphic organizer to gather the facts.

What do you see in a political cartoon?

Plessy v Ferguson

Jim Crow

Jim Crow 2

Jim Crow Song

Irony

List facts showing the early history of the NAACP

Read the history of the NAACP and report the facts.

Who was Dubois?

W.E. B. Dubois

Study the timeline of events and make a decision.  What events were important?

Time Line of NAACP

Reconstruction 1865 - 1877

When the Civil War ended, much of the South lay in ruins. Many people returned to destroyed homes and farms. Harvests of corn, cotton, rice, and other crops fell far below normal. Many farm animals had been killed or were roaming free. These were some of the challenges in restoring the nation.
Reconstruction Began: That start brought many problems to the South and in the end the South and African Americans were left facing many hardships that will live with them nearly 100 after Reconstruction was over....





Your job to go onto any link of your choice to do some research on the KKK....Each group has two links that you may use to gather your information.

Group # 1
Rise of the KKK in 1866-

KKK audio explanations


Group # 2
KKK History

How did the KKK learn to dress so stylish?


Group # 3
KKK during Reconstruction

Does the KKK still exist today? and Where in the U.S.?                                                 .






       

Progressive Leaders

Jane Addams worked to help the poor and to stop the use of children as industrial laborers. She ran Hull House in Chicago, a center which helped immigrants in particular.  She was not alone in this reform movement Ms. Addams had a friend that helped her make her dreams of reform come true she was Ellen Star Gates. 


Jane Addams Good Work
Jane Addams Life
Jane Addams Short Facts

Upton Sinclair exposed the working conditions in the Meat Packing Industry located in Chicago, Illinois.  He was a writer that decided to expose the filthy conditions that existed in these processing plants. 

Upton Sinclair Life
Upton Sinclair Changes America

Lincoln Steffens
Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens

Ida B. Tarbell
Ida Tarbell and Standard Oil
The Woman that took on the Man behind Standard Oil






 

Jacob Riis - How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis was an immigrant that came to America from Denmark in the middle of the 1800s at the age of 17.  In order to survive he had many jobs which included: ironworker, carpenter, bricklayer, and salesman.  He went to school and learned English and eventually he got a job as a police reporter with the New York Tribune...(newspaper). His job was to cover crime and that led to his becoming a Muckraker a person the exposed the evils of America.

Through his picture taking of crime in lower Manhattan Jacob Riis became aware of the poverty and hardships existed for immigrants in NYC.  Riis felt the best way to display these issues was to take pictures of the slums and tenements in Manhattan. " A picture is worth a thousand words." Riis taught himself photography and traveled lower Manhattan taking pictures.  He then created a picture book How the Other Half Lives. 

Once Americans saw these pictures they could no longer deny the harsh conditions in which immigrants lived in the largest city in America.  As a result this led to the Progressive Movement.

All groups are to use their graphic organizers to analyze pictures from Riis's book How the Other Half Lives.

Group # 1 - Choose 3 pictures and capture the details of each and record on the organizer.  Remember the organizer is double-sided - follow the directions on each side.

Picture # 1                           Picture # 2                         Picture # 3


Group # 2

Picture # 1                         Picture # 2                         Picture # 3


Group # 3

Picture # 1                         Picture # 2                         Picture # 3










 

Kristallnacht -The Night of Broken Glass

Historians have stated that Kristallnacht is the start of the Holocaust.  It is the month that Adolf Hitler released notice that all good Germans were to attack stores owned by Jewish merchants and destroys their houses of worship. 
ABC Revisits the Anniversay of Kristallnacht



Video of Kristallnacht



Virtual Tour

Second Industrial Revolution --Inventors & Inventions

  The Wizard of Menlo Park

Second Industrial Revolution was a time in history where many inventions were created to make transportation, communication, banking better for people around the world.  However, there was a cost to these new inventions workers were needed.  These workers would come from different places to work in our factories.

Search the websites for a information about inventions between 1845 - 1920.  Once you find the invention you will investigate you and your partner will start your assignment.  Good Luck

Enchanted Learning-Inventions and Inventors


Timeline of Inventions


Time Line # 2