1. CHAPTER 14:
New Movements in America
Section 1:
Immigrants and Urban Challenges

2. VOCABULARY
Tenements: Poorly built housing
where many immigrants lived

3. MILLIONS OF
IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE
 Over 4 million immigrants came to
the U.S. between 1840-1860

4. MILLIONS OF
IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE
 To start new lives in America

5. MILLIONS OF
IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE
 Most came from Europe
 Ireland
and
Germany

6. IRISH IMMIGRANTS
 Main Irish crop in
1800’s was the potato
 Potato blight caused rot

7. IRISH IMMIGRANTS
 Irish Potato Famine – over a
million starved to death

8. IRISH IMMIGRANTS
 Many lost their homes
 Millions went to America

9. Irish
Leaving for
the United
States

10. IRISH IMMIGRANTS
 Most
settled in
Northeast
cities
 Most
worked low
paying
unskilled jobs

12. GERMAN IMMIGRANTS
 Germans came to America for two
reasons:
• To escape political persecution
• For economic opportunity

13. GERMAN IMMIGRANTS
 More likely
to settle in
the Midwest
 Many
worked as
farmers and
in skilled jobs

14. ANTI-IMMIGRANT
MOVEMENTS
 Nativists opposed immigration
 Worried that immigrants:
• worked for cheaper wages & took
their jobs
• had different cultures & religions
 They sometimes attacked
immigrants

15. Nativists
Attacking
Immigrants

16. ANTI-IMMIGRANT
MOVEMENTS
 Formed a political party called the
Know-Nothing Party

17. PROBLEMS IN THE
CITIES
 Jobs at
factories
attracted rural
Americans &
immigrants

18. PROBLEMS IN THE
CITIES
 Cities
became
overcrowded

19. PROBLEMS IN THE
CITIES
 Poor people lived in tenement
housing

20. Tenement Apartments

21. Inside the Tenements

22. PROBLEMS IN THE
CITIES
 Most cities did not have:
 Running water
 Garbage pickup
 Police forces
 Fire departments

23. PROBLEMS IN THE
CITIES
 Diseases, violence, crime, & fires
were common