1. Chapter 3

2. Moving to a New Community
Lesson 1:
Moving to a New Community

3. Why People Move People move for: A better job An opportunity
A better life for their family
Seek freedom
Religious
Government
Safer community
Laws established

4. Lesson 2:
Learning New Customs

5. Moving to a New Country Immigrant Custom
A person who moves into a country and lives there
Custom
A way of doing things

6. Ethnic Neighborhoods Ethnic group Exposed to new culture
People who have the same culture
Speak same language
Stores have food that they eat
Customs are of their home culture
Exposed to new culture

7. New Communities Formed
System of laws set
Make people feel safer

8. Where Did They Come From?
Lesson 3:
Where Did They Come From?

9. They Came Long Ago Ancestors Statue of Liberty
Relatives who lived long ago
Some came from Europe in the early 1900s.
Statue of Liberty
In the harbor of New York City
Symbol of freedom to immigrants

11. A Nation of Immigrants Reasons Freedom Better opportunities
Food was scarce
Find jobs
Work on farms
No choice

12. A Nation of Immigrants Where they entered they United States
Ellis Island
Angel Island (San Francisco Bay)
Boston, MA
Galveston, TX
New Orleans, LA

14. An Immigrant Writer Famous immigrant writers Mary Antin
Write books and poems to share story
Mary Antin
Moved to US from Russia
Settled in Boston with family
Wrote The Promised Land

15. An Immigrant Artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
Moved to America from Germany
Lived in Philadelphia
Studied panting
Famous painting from 1851: Washington Crossing the Delaware
In Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC

17. Lesson 4:
A New Life in America

18. A New Life Immigrants had to: Learn new language Find homes Find jobs
Learn skills to do work

19. Citizen An official member of a community
Help make decisions that affect the community by voting

20. Education Past and Present
Foreign schools different
Start at younger age
Taught different things
Learned native language
Learned about their country’s history

21. Education Past and Present
In the United States:
Learned about way of life and government
Learned math and science
Learned English

22. Sharing Cultures 1900s- Ethnic neighborhoods grew Cultures mix NYC
Boston
San Francisco
Cultures mix
Games
Songs
Foods

23. Migration
Moving from one part of a country to live in another part

24. Moving North Great Migration 1900
African Americans moving North for a better life
Moved to NYC, Chicago, and Pittsburg
Looked for jobs in factories

25. African American Culture
Brought culture with them
Produced great works
Musicians
Writers
Artists