1. History of U.S. Immigration

2. Learning Targets I can define xenophobia. I can define nativism.
I can list groups that have come to the U.S.
I can analyze the reaction of Americans to immigration.
I can list and describe immigration laws that have been enacted in our history.

3. Words to Know Xenophobia: Hatred of foreigners and immigrants
Nativism: Keeping a society ethnically homogenous (i.e. not wanting immigrants)

4. “Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.”
Benjamin Franklin, “Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind” 1751

5. Franklin Quotes on Race
“The Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably [sic] very small”
“In Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion”

6. Why did Franklin not want Germans in the colonies?
Did his fears turn out to be true in the long run?

7. Ancestry with Largest Pop. in County

8. What group was “not wanted” next?

9. Irish Immigrants

10. Irish Immigrants Nativists disliked Irish because they were Catholic.
Burned Catholic buildings
Viewed Catholics as loyal to the Pope
Saw Catholic youths “the majority of our criminals”

11. After the Irish, who next?

12. Chinese Immigrants
Many Chinese worked to build the Transcontinental Railroad.
After, they were seen as a threat to American way of life.
Discrimination for decades led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Prevented Chinese immigration
Did not allow legal Chinese residents to become naturalized citizens

14. After the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed, focus shifted to…
Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907 limited Japanese immigration.

15. Anti-Japanese Discrimination San Francisco Chronicle, March 9, 1905

16. Also…?

17. Italian Immigrants
Mob in New Orleans lynched 11 Italians who had been acquitted.
Teddy Roosevelt called the lynching “a rather good thing.”
“sneaking and cowardly Sicilians, the descendants of bandits and assassins.”
Lynch mob was never prosecuted.
Leader becomes governor
"just a little worse than the Negro, being if anything filthier in [their] habits..."

18. Immigration Act of 1924
Created a quota system to favor “Anglo-Saxons.”
Based on 2% of ethnic population in 1890.
In other words, people already here in large numbers in 1890 had an advantage.
English
Germans
Irish
Also excluded Asians…again.

20. Learning Targets I can define xenophobia. I can define nativism.
I can list groups that have come to the U.S.
I can analyze the reaction of Americans to immigration.
I can list and describe immigration laws that have been enacted in our history.     