Immigration Scrapbook

Immigration Scrapbook - Page Text Content

BC: Jobs in America. Unskilled labor workers, small businessman, and farmers

FC: Japanese Immigration By : Ebonie Kersey

1: Why they leave their homeland? | Japan's painful transition to a modern economy that produced large scale unemployment, bankruptcies and civil disorders

2: What possessions did they take? Clothes, money and their passports | Who did they take? They brought their family, but not all of them | What will they miss? They will miss the family that they couldn't bring with them, their homes, and other personal belongings they couldn't bring

3: What was the ocean trip like? The passengers paid more money, the boats were filled with other immigrants, and their boat was different from the wealthy white people. | What did they have to do to be allowed into America? | Did everyone make it? No not everyone made it

4: Where in America did they settle? Why did they settle here? California, Hawaii | What conditions did they find here? Limits on their land, and racial prejudice

5: What attitudes did they face? GOOD/BAD and why? They faced bad attitude because Americans feared that their jobs were getting taking by immigrants | How did they deal with their treatment?