19TH CENTURY IMMIGRATION

WHAT IS IMMIGRATION

• Immigration is where someone moves to a new country/place for a new life

3 REASONS WHY A PERSON MIGHT MOVE TO A NEW COUNTRY

• Jobs
• Plentiful land
• Opportunities for a better life

CHARACTER PROFILE

• Im Giuseppe Ghislanzoni
• I arrived in 1899
• My homeland is italy
• I speak italian

SECOND CHARACTER PROFILE

• Im a farmer
• I moved to america because insects were eating my crops so i had to sell my crops and move to america
• A challenge for me might be that i don't speak American
• My skill is farming

INSPECTON

• I entered through the barge office
• Examiners would give them health inspections
• They checked my luggage and let me in to america

INSPECTION

• I brought two weeks of clothes and a quart of homemade olive oil
• The olive oil will help me cook and the clothes will keep me warm
• I will need to buy water and food and maybe more clothes
• I have $19

LIVING IN A NEW WORLD

• I had trouble finding a job
• I had a lot of trouble trying to get a place to live because no one wanted to rent to an Italian
• I live by a lot of other Italians so that is making my life easy
• I don't speak English so that is making my life harder

IMMIGRANT POLICIES

• The Chinese exclusion act made it so Chinese immigrants couldn't enter America for 10 years
• The immigration act of 1917 made it so immigrants had to be able to read and write
• These acts made it hard for immigrants to enter the country
• Some Americans supported immigrants because it supplied America with more workers

AMERICAN DREAM

• My life changed for the worse because i couldn't find a job and got kicked out of my apartment so i moved back to italy
• If i was born in the United States i could have found a job because i would have spoke the language and wouldn't have been kicked out of my apartment

REFLECTION

• My biggest challenges was finding a job and apartment
• My journey was not worth the effort because i eventually went back to italy
• The American dream to me means that you find a job and a house