The Immigrant Experience
- Created by: Becca Newman
- Created on: 08-03-20 16:37
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- The Immigrant Experience
- Early Settlers
- 1492 Christopher Columbus 'discovered' the Americas
- 1620 English settlers landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Became the first permanent settlement in North America
- Plymouth Rock - a symbol of virtues and flaws of the 1st colony and the original American Dream
- 35 of the 102 settlers were from the English Separatist Church
- Escaping religious persecution and seeking to be missionaries
- They came across in the Mayflower funded by a London Stock Company
- The Mayflower Compact - a document signed by the Plymouth settlers as a rudimentary form of democracy
- They were originally known as the Old Comers + Forefathers + Pilgrim Father
- They settled in families to allow the colony to prosper
- Became the first permanent settlement in North America
- New York
- New York was a hub/welcome point of immigration
- The Statue of Liberty was supposed to welcome and light the way for immigrants
- Ellis Island was the busiest immigration inspection station from 1892-1954
- Processed approximately 12 million immigrants
- Many blamed immigration for the organised crime in places like New York and Chicago
- Immigration in Literature
- Immigrants and their descendants wrote about their experience and cultures
- Focused on the land or the city
- Colonists were a symbol of adventue, determination, skill, self-discipline
- The ideals of American Identity
- The powerful mother was often a strong symbol
- 19th/20th century immigration literature focused on the problems of adjustment + people's inability to mix together cohesively
- The inexperience of the immigrant
- 'The American Immigrant Novel' focused on assimilation + to what extent was American identity achieved by immigrants
- Explores generational differences between immigrants
- Parents kept their home culture whilst their children were American and had to educate their parents on American culture
- The 3rd generation explored their roots and felt connected to it
- Parents kept their home culture whilst their children were American and had to educate their parents on American culture
- Explores generational differences between immigrants
- Immigrant experience begins with hopefulness + adventure - their arrival is unwelcomed
- Problems manifest in the family
- Bildungsroman novel - coming of age/rite of passage
- Immigrants and their descendants wrote about their experience and cultures
- Manifest Destiny
- Migrants from settled cities in the East moved over West and across the Plains
- Striking a claim + fulfilling the God given right to own and fill all land
- In the process settlers caused a mass genocide of Native Americans
- Pastoral culture on the plains, South and West
- Pastoral Culture was the foundation of many people's American Dreams
- Agricultural mass production
- 18th/19th Century Immigration
- Non-voluntary immigration of African-American slaves
- This led to migration from south to north of freed/run-away slaves
- Immigrants arrived expecting the American Dream but the reality was racism and corruption
- 19th century another wave of immigration
- German, Irish, Italisn, Scandinavian
- 35 million immigrants arrived in the US between 1800 and 1924
- Largest voluntary immigration of people in history
- Non-voluntary immigration of African-American slaves
- Early Settlers
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