HIST206 Lecture 7: Immigration
12 Oct 2017
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Impacts how people are viewed when they enter the united states. Push factors: reasons why people left their homelands (emigration = out migration) Agricultural changes in europe: enclosure (fencing in private property {made it hard for people to graze cattle}) in western. Pull factors: conditions that enticed people to the u. s. (immigration= in migration: availability of jobs, period of 2nd industrial revolution --> business is booming. Independent men come to the u. s. first between ages of 13-35 years old. Trips to u. s: people depending on trains to get them to port cities. Immigrants coming from europe passed through ellis island: government should start to screen who enters the united states, people met with immigration official, physical exam. Focused on exterior of body: weed out people who carry disease or wouldn"t be able to work (ex: physical handicap, mental health issue, glaucoma, Interview --> trying to weed out people who would potentially raise problems in the.
