NOTES on New Immigration

Emma Lazarus Poem on Base

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these,

the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

“I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with gold…

When I got here, I found out three things: First, the streets weren’t paved with gold; second, they weren’t paved at all; and third, I was expected to pave them”

Ellis Island

Southern and Eastern Europeans1. Motivation to move

a. Push: Fleeing land shortage, job shortage, famine

b. Pull: religious and political freedom

2. Port of entry: Ellis Island in NYC

3. Why Americans discriminated

a. fear religious differencesi. US = Protestantii. immigrants = Catholic, Jewish

b. fear job competition

4. Anti-immigration policiesa. Quota Act of 1924: only

2% of each nation’s present population allowed to enter

b. De facto discrimination (socially enforced)

i. Ghettos (secluded community)

Angel Island Immigration Station

Chinese1. motive to move:

a. push factor: fleeing land shortage and political revolution

b. pull factor: job opportunities: build transcontinental railroad

2. Port of entry: Angel Island in San Francisco

3. Why Americans discriminatea. fear job competitionb. fear cultural differencesc. fear of racial mixing

3. Why Americans discriminatea. fear job competitionb. fear cultural differencesc. fear of racial mixing

4. Anti-immigration policiesa. Denis Kearney Disturbance: resent

job competition… cut off hair of Asians and murder

3. Why Americans discriminatea. fear job competitionb. fear cultural differencesc. fear of racial mixing

4. Anti-immigration policiesa. Denis Kearney Disturbance: resent

job competition… cut off hair of Asians and murder

b. Chinese Exclusion Act: prohibit immigration of Chinese labor

Chinese Exclusion Act

WHEREAS, in the opinion of

the Government of the

United States the coming of

Chinese laborers to this

country endangers the good

order of certain localities

within the territory thereof:

Therefore,

Be it enacted… the coming

of Chinese laborers to the

Untied States be, . . .

suspended; and during such

suspension it shall not be

lawful for any Chinese

laborer to come, or, having

so come after the expiration

of said ninety days, to

remain within the United

States.

Chinese Exclusion ActWHEREAS, in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities within the territory thereof: Therefore,Be it enacted… the coming of Chinese laborers to the Untied States be, . . . suspended; and during such suspension it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or, having so come after the expiration of said ninety days, to remain within the United States.

3. Why Americans discriminatea. fear job competitionb. fear cultural differencesc. fear of racial mixing

4. Anti-immigration policiesa. Denis Kearney Disturbance: resent

job competition… cut off hair of Asians and murder

b. Chinese Exclusion Act: prohibit immigration of Chinese labor

c. Alien Land Law – non-citizen Asians could not own land

d. Page Law: excluded all “Oriental Women from immigrating… assumed they were prostitutes

Chinese Exclusion Act

WHEREAS, in the opinion of

the Government of the

United States the coming of

Chinese laborers to this

country endangers the good

order of certain localities

within the territory thereof:

Therefore,

Be it enacted… the coming

of Chinese laborers to the

Untied States be, . . .

suspended; and during such

suspension it shall not be

lawful for any Chinese

laborer to come, or, having

so come after the expiration

of said ninety days, to

remain within the United

States.

Directions

Add symbols, pictures,

or phrases

that explain

the “America

n Dream”

“Life, liberty,

pursuit of

happiness”

Freedom of speech, religion,

press, and assembly

The Gilded Age (covered in gold, inside is junk)

“Rags to Riches”

The The AmericanAmerican

DreamDream

Directions

•Summarize the meaning of the cartoon

•List at least 2 ways each ethnic/racial group became the targets of discrimination

American Indians

Directions

•Summarize the meaning of the cartoon

•List at least 2 ways each ethnic/racial group became the targets of discrimination

European Immigrants

Directions

•Summarize the meaning of the cartoon

•List at least 2 ways each ethnic/racial group became the targets of discrimination

Asian Immigrants

“No more Washee! Playee Base-ballee! Sellee out Game, allee same Melican man!”

Directions

•Summarize the meaning of the cartoon

•List at least 2 ways each ethnic/racial group became the targets of discrimination

African-Americans

Directions

Label the following population centers

•American IndiansSD, OK, 4 Corners

•European ImmigrantsNew York City (Ellis Island), Chicago, Philadelphia

•Asian ImmigrantsSan Francisco (Angel Island), San Diego

•African AmericansLower South

Map

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Directions

Label the following population centers

•American IndiansSD, OK, 4 Corners

•European ImmigrantsNew York City (Ellis Island), Chicago, Philadelphia

•Asian ImmigrantsSan Francisco (Angel Island), San Diego

•African AmericansLower South