Immigration

Push and Pull Factors

Brain Starter

What would it take for you to move to Australia?

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What would have to happen here or what would have to be going on over there?

Agenda

• Brain Starter
• Announcements
• Ellis Island $$ and permission slip
• Cornell Notes
• Event Analysis
• Cornell Note Summary �Strategies
• Wrap-Up

Goal

• Students will skillfully summarize their notes, demonstrating their ability to write about the heart of a lesson.

Essential Question

Why did immigrants come to the U.S. in the late 1800’s & early 1900’s?

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Incentives for coming to the U.S.

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Push Factors = reasons people wanted to LEAVE their country

Pull Factors = reasons people wanted to COME to the U.S.

Industrialization

• Factory jobs in the North needed cheaper labor.
• This caused a demand for immigrant labor.

Is it Push or Pull?

• With a partner, log onto the EBA 8^th Grade Social Studies Website and read through the list of Incentives to Immigrate
• Decide which are push factors and which are pull factors.
• Create a T-Chart on P.?

Push Factor Pull Factor

Late 1800’s Push Factors

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• Irish- Potato Famine
• Italians- Left poor crops yields, high taxes, government oppression.
• Germans- Revolution in Germany
• Jews- Religious persecution
• Chinese- Natural disasters and wars

Cornell Summary

• What does a good summary look like?
• Push and Pull factors explain why people immigrate. There were a lot of reasons like religious persecution, taxes, revolution, etc. that made people want to leave. America had a lot of great things like land and opportunities to prosper.
• What does a bad summary look like?
• Today we learned…(insert one fact here).

Cornell Notes

Fold over to red line

Period ____

Date ____

Essential Question

Cue Questions

• Class Notes

Summary: What was the main idea of the notes that were take in class?

Homework/Wrap-Up

• Watch the “Immigration” �Brain POP.

• Be Prepared.
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• Do Your Job.
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• No Excuses.