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Think about your background – your race/ethnicity/heritage. Do you know how your family came to America?
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Analyze the circumstances surrounding the great wave of immigration after the Civil War
Evaluate how nativism affected immigration policies
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SteerageEllis IslandAngel IslandNativismAmerican Protective AssociationWorkingman’s Party of CaliforniaChinese Exclusion Act
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- By the 1890’s, eastern and southern Europeans make up more than half of all immigrants.
- Why come to America?- Jobs- Few immigration restrictions- Avoid military service- Avoid religious persecution- Europe’s class system
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- Ellis Island- Took 1 day to go
through inspections- “Step lively” in every language- Colored chalk- H (heart), - K (hernia), - Sc (scalp), - X (mental)
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- Most immigrants settled in cities.- Ethnic neighborhoods- “More stripes than on the skin of a zebra”
- The benefits of learning English, having $$
- Did all immigrants come to stay?
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- Reasons for Chinese coming to America…- Problems in Asia- China’s population = 430 million- 49ers- Taiping Rebellion- Central Pacific Railroad
- Japanese immigration- #’s remained small until 1900- Picked up between 1900 and 1919
- Angel Island- Asian immigrants were mostly young men
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- The increase in immigration led to nativism- Not the 1st time nativism was common
- Fear of Catholicism- Some labor unions anti-immigration
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- Nativism led to the forming of two anti-immigrant groups- The American Protective Association- The Workingman’s Party of California
- Irony?
- In 1882, two laws pass…- Ban on paupers and mentally ill- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Renewed in 1892 and made permanent in 1902