1. NOTES on New Immigration

2. 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!

3. “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”

4. Ellis Island

5. Southern and Eastern Europeans Motivation to move
Push: Fleeing land shortage, job shortage, famine
Pull: religious and political freedom
Port of entry: Ellis Island in NYC

8. 3. Why Americans discriminated
fear religious differences
US = Protestant
immigrants = Catholic, Jewish
fear job competition
4. Anti-immigration policies
Quota Act of 1924: only 2% of each nation’s present population allowed to enter
De facto discrimination (socially enforced)
i. Ghettos (secluded community)

9. Angel Island Immigration Station

10. Port of entry: Angel Island in San Francisco
Chinese
motive to move:
push factor: fleeing land shortage and political revolution
pull factor: job opportunities: build transcontinental railroad
Port of entry: Angel Island in San Francisco

12. 3. Why Americans discriminate
fear job competition
fear cultural differences
fear of racial mixing

13. Chinese Exclusion Act 3. Why Americans discriminate
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.
3. Why Americans discriminate
fear job competition
fear cultural differences
fear of racial mixing
4. Anti-immigration policies
Denis Kearney Disturbance: resent job competition… cut off hair of Asians and murder
Chinese Exclusion Act: prohibit immigration of Chinese labor
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,
Chinese Exclusion Act
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.

14. 3. Why Americans discriminate
fear job competition
fear cultural differences
fear of racial mixing
4. Anti-immigration policies
Denis Kearney Disturbance: resent job competition… cut off hair of Asians and murder
Chinese Exclusion Act: prohibit immigration of Chinese labor
Alien Land Law – non-citizen Asians could not own land
Page Law: excluded all “Oriental Women from immigrating… assumed they were prostitutes
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,
Chinese Exclusion Act
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.

15. The Gilded Age Directions
Add symbols, pictures, or phrases that explain the “American Dream”
The Gilded Age
(covered in gold, inside is junk)
Freedom of speech, religion, press, and assembly
“Rags to Riches”
“Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness”
The
American
Dream

16. American Indians Directions Summarize the meaning of the cartoon
List at least 2 ways each ethnic/racial group became the targets of discrimination
American Indians

17. European Immigrants Directions Summarize the meaning of the cartoon
List at least 2 ways each ethnic/racial group became the targets of discrimination
European Immigrants

18. Asian 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!”

19. African-Americans Directions Summarize the meaning of the cartoon
List at least 2 ways each ethnic/racial group became the targets of discrimination
African-Americans

20. Label the following population centers
Directions
Label the following population centers
American Indians SD, OK, 4 Corners
European Immigrants New York City (Ellis Island), Chicago, Philadelphia
Asian Immigrants San Francisco (Angel Island), San Diego
African Americans Lower South
Map
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21. Label the following population centers
Directions
Label the following population centers
American Indians SD, OK, 4 Corners
European Immigrants New York City (Ellis Island), Chicago, Philadelphia
Asian Immigrants San Francisco (Angel Island), San Diego
African Americans Lower South