AP U.S. History / Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898
6.8 Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age
Notes
"New immigrants" came from Southern and Eastern Europe (Italy, Poland, Russia) and Asia, through Ellis Island and Angel Island. Many lived in crowded urban tenements. Some African Americans moved north and west.
Practice
Most "new immigrants" after 1880 came from:
Italians, Poles, Jews.
Ellis Island was a main immigration station in:
Opened 1892.
Immigrants often lived in crowded city apartments called:
Poor housing.
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