Movie notes from Friday, 5th Period

Today we watched a movie on immigrants, it was about the following:
-1880-1914, 20 million immigrants came to America
-Ellis Island was the main port where they came in at
-came from Western Europe
-came for political and relgious freedom
-most were from England, Ireland, and Germany
-40% went back to there homeland
-industrialization gave many immigrants work, few were jobless
-poverty, filth, and disease filled the streets were the immigrants lived
-almost everyone in the family worked to produce money for these poor families
-jobs were divided by ethnic backgrounds
-55,000 got Typhoid in Pittsburg
-families shared incomes and expenses
-"Melting Pot Theory"-religious and political differences would melt away decreasing conflict
-Americanization began; immigrants were taught English, punctuality, and cleanliness
-Education was free for everyone
-Polish parents wanted to educate their children in Catholic Schools; over half of the Polish Children attened Catcholic Schools
-Children and parents begin to clash with children rejecting their home countries values and cultural ideas
-children recieved new names at school
-1876, California men create the Working Man's Party
-Chinese Exclusion Act, barred any more Chinese from entering the country
-Vaudeville, Nickelodeons, Circuses, dancehalls, amusement parks were all sources of entertainment for immigrants
-Harry Houdini was called the Master of Escape
-Baseball was popular and nicknamed "America's Pasttime"
-Newspapers helped personalize an impersonalized environment

That's all I got Have a good weekend
Liz