Immigration+Past+and+Present

b.. **How did immigration lead to the creation of tenement housing?**
====//Because so many people started to immigrate to these major cities in America for jobs, there needed to be places to be built for them to live in. However, the cities were not big enough to hold so many people, so they created apartment buildings and crammed people inside of them.//====

c. **What is life like for new immigrants in the early 1900's? What is life like in tenement housing?**
====//Life for new immigrants is tough, because they might not speak English and has no clue what the culture is like. Also, they have little, if any, money with them so they must start off with virtually nothing and build up from that. They had to deal with nativists who accused them of stealing all of the jobs from Americans so they had to work long hours for a low wage. Many kids had to help out the family and skip school to get a job.//====

d. **What potential obstacles can you see for recently arrived immigrants in the early 1900s?**
//Recently arrived immigrants may not pass the test at Ellis Island and since they don't have any money to begin with, they may not have any money to get back and would be stuck in a predicament. Also after arriving, they would have to figure out a place to stay. Since most of them end up in tenement houses, they must find jobs quickly and make do with the little they have.//

**a. What are the effects of immigration on cities?**

//Immigration on cities takes jobs away from those who already live in cities and causes discrimination towards a group of people. Also, more housing need to be built and new laws to be made.//

**b. How has immigration changed the United States? How was it changed Boston?**

====//In Boston, there is a North End and South End, for the Italian immigrants and the Irish immigrants. There were many conflicts between the two groups, but each has created an area that encompassed their culture which still exists today. The Italians and Irish gave the city a Roman Catholic population. You can still see the effects of the Irish today as even our basketball team are the Boston Celtics and the establishment of BC, a Catholic school.//====

Day 1: Teenage boy gets shot and killed when he was playing near the border due to other Mexicans throwing rocks at US officials.



Immigration Unit IMMIGRATION WIKISPACE.

Day 4: July 7, 2010 MOVIE PROJECT: Interview with an immigrant.

Andrew Chen is a Chinese immigrant in the present, being interviewed by me. He discusses how his life has drastically changed for the better in America. I am also a Chinese immigrant, but in a different time period; the late 1800s when the Chinese Exclusion Act was enacted and many had moved to America for the gold rush and to work on the transcontinental railroad.

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