Immigration to America
National History Standards
Materials compiled in this document can be used by educators to fulfill the following National History Standards for Grades 5-12:
Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
STANDARD 2: Massive immigration after 1870 and how new social patterns, conflicts, and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity.
Standard 2A: The student understands the sources and experiences of the new immigrants.
7-12: Distinguish between the "old" and "new" immigration in terms of its volume and the immigrants' ethnicity, religion, language, place of origin, and motives for emigrating from their homelands. [Analyze multiple causation]
5-12: Assess the challenges, opportunities, and contributions of different immigrant groups. [Examine historical perspectives]
Primary Resources
DESCRIPTION: Immigrant pier, Locust Point
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: early 20th century
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SOURCE: (Z24.2194)
REPOSITORY: Maryland Historical SocietyDESCRIPTION: Passport - Cecco Rossa and Vaccarino Francescare
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REPOSITORY: Maryland Historical SocietyDESCRIPTION: Arrival of emigrants [i.e. immigrants], Ellis Island / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
OTHER TITLES: Arrival of immigrants, Ellis Island
CREATED/PUBLISHED: United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1906.
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SUMMARY: Depicts scenes at the Immigration Depot and a nearby dock on Ellis Island. Appears to show, first, a group of immigrants lined up to board a vessel leaving the island, then another group arriving at the island and being directed off of the dock and into the Depot by a uniformed official
SOURCE: Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound DivisionDESCRIPTION: Emigrants [i.e. immigrants] landing at Ellis Island / Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
OTHER TITLES: Immigrants landing at Ellis Island
CREATED/PUBLISHED: United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1903.
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SUMMARY: The film opens with a view of the steam ferryboat "William Myers," laden with passengers, approaching a dock at the Ellis Island Immigration Station. The vessel is docked, the gangway is placed, and the immigrant passengers are seen coming up the gangway and onto the dock, where they cross in front of the camera. From a contemporary Edison film company catalog: EMIGRANTS LANDING AT ELLIS ISLAND. Shows a large open barge loaded with people of every nationality, who have just arrived from Europe, disembarking at Ellis Island, N.Y. A most interesting and typical scene. Code word Utriele [code for telegraphic orders]. Length 140 feet. Class B. $16.80.
SOURCE: Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division-
DESCRIPTION: Annual Report
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1897
SOURCE: BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION (Annual Report) 1897, 1st Accession Number: MdHR 805625, Location: 2/4/8/45, I5312
REPOSITORY: Maryland State Archives -
DESCRIPTION: Biennial Report
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1900-1901
SOURCE: BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION (Biennial Report) 1900-1901 Accession Number: MdHR 805633, Location: 2/4/8/45, I5313
REPOSITORY: Maryland State Archives DESCRIPTION: Annual Report
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1903
SOURCE: BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION (Annual Report) 1903 Manuscript Accession Number: MdHR 811271, Location: 2/3/6/12, I3111
REPOSITORY: Maryland State Archives-
DESCRIPTION: Annual Report
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1905
SOURCE: BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION (Annual Report) 1905 Manuscript Accession Number: MdHR 811272, Location: 2/3/6/12, I3112
REPOSITORY: Maryland State Archives DESCRIPTION: Annual Report
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1905
SOURCE: BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION (Annual Report) 1905 Manuscript Accession Number: MdHR 811272, Location: 2/3/6/12, I3112
REPOSITORY: Maryland State ArchivesDESCRIPTION: Annual Report
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1907
SOURCE: BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION (Annual Report) 1907 Manuscript Accession Number: MdHR 811273, Location: 2/3/6/12, I3113
REPOSITORY: Maryland State ArchivesDESCRIPTION: Biennial Report
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1908-1909
SOURCE: BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION (Biennial Report) 1908-1909 Accession Number: MdHR 805632, Location: 2/4/8/45, I6445
REPOSITORY: Maryland State ArchivesDESCRIPTION: Annual Report
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1910
SOURCE: BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION (Annual Report) 1910 Manuscript 1910/11/01 Accession Number: MdHR 811274, Location: 2/3/6/12, I3115
REPOSITORY: Maryland State ArchivesDESCRIPTION: Biennial Report
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1910-1911
SOURCE: BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION (Biennial Report) 1910-1911 Accession Number: MdHR 805631, Location: 2/4/8/45, I6446
REPOSITORY: Maryland State ArchivesDESCRIPTION: Biennial Report
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1912-1913
SOURCE: BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION (Biennial Report) 1912-1913 Accession Number: MdHR 805630, Location: 2/4/8/45, I6447
REPOSITORY: Maryland State ArchivesDESCRIPTION: Biennial Report
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1914-1915
SOURCE: BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION (Biennial Report) 1914-1915 Accession Number: MdHR 805629, Location: 2/4/8/45, I6448
REPOSITORY: Maryland State ArchivesDESCRIPTION: Maryland State and the Advantages it Offers to Immigrants, especially Farmers, etc.
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: n. d.
SOURCE: BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION (Report) n.d. Accession Number: MdHR 805623, Location: 2/4/8/45, I5311
REPOSITORY: Maryland State Archives
Additional Instructional Resources
Push and Pull of Immigration. From the Johnstown Heritage Discovery Center.
Making a Life: Creating a Community. From the Johnstown Heritage Discovery Center.
Making a Living. From the Johnstown Heritage Discovery Center.
Additional Media Resources
Immigration and Naturalization. From the Maryland State Archives.
Secondary Resources
Karras, Alan L. Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1992
Shufelt, Gordon H. Strangers in a Middle Land: Italian Immigrants and Race Relations in Baltimore, 1890 - 1920. UMI, Ann Arbor, MI, 1998
Vill, Martha J. "Immigrants and Ownership: Home Mortgage Financing in Baltimore, 1865 - 1914," Geographical Perspectives on Maryland's Past (1979): 150-167.
Ward, David. Cities and Immigrants: A Geography of Change in Nineteenth-Century America. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 1971
Weatherford, Doris. Foreign and Female: Immigrant Women in America, 1840-1930. Schocken, New York, NY, 1986
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