immigration in gilded age america
- Created by: shannonboulton
- Created on: 07-05-19 16:38
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- immigrants living in US
- some had relatives already in US which helped settle in
- others not so easy + targets for exploitation
- some move in land to try agriculture but most stay in cities
- many live togetehr and share communities, many live in family/group networks, many rely on these to find jobs upon arrival
- even those who find jobs live in poor conditions in overcrowding cities
- many live togetehr and share communities, many live in family/group networks, many rely on these to find jobs upon arrival
- older more established residents leave= dont like new residents
- move to nicer areas, take their money with them, conditions in prior neighbourhood deterioate (china town_ as left with unwealthy
- low paid jobs and poor conditions, face predjudice, seen as economic threat as willing to work for nothing
- also threat to established law+order as come from countires that aren't like US or Britian in western europe
- issue with religion= anit-catholic (targeted mainly at irish) grows as population diversifies
- Darwinian ideas about superior and inferior races applied to diff social groups= new immigrants blamed for labour disputes
- groups spring up to protect America from imagined catholic dominance
- American protective Association = limit immigration, employment of catholics and promote teaching of American language
- public schools expand significantly to try standarise the American experience
- American gov attempts to limit immigration= not so much concerned abotu catholics and jews
- 1875= prostitues and convicts, 1882= lunatics, 1890s illiterates, 1882 chinese exclusion act
- chinese suffer= look significantly different, 1882 exclusion act, made permanent in 1904 stopping all as sense of threat and different way of life
- worked really hard and made everyone else look bad
- new political party 1890s, formed as result of changes of urbanisaiton, industrialisation and immigration, formed by American farmers.
- some had relatives already in US which helped settle in
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