2 people up to front to briefly…. Please share your conclusions from the two accounts of the Pullman Strike 2 people up to front to briefly…. Compare the versions of the story Identify/ highlight key words/ phrases that show which “side” the papers take

AGREE OR DISAGREE: The United States should allow unlimited immigration. between 2015 and 2060, native non-Hispanic whites in the U.S. will decline by 23 million—while the rest of the population (minorities and immigrants) will increase by 118 million. Native non-Hispanic whites will be a minority before 2040, and will be only two-fifths of America’s population in 2060.

“New” Immigration: 1880s- 1915 Southern and Eastern Europe; some Chinese Speak no English Desperately poor, mostly illiterate “exotic cultures”- language, religion, etc. Key Question: What were the views for and against “new immigration?”

“New Immigrants” & NATIVISM NATIVISM- anti-immigration, or pro “native born” sentiment Leads to…… Immigration restriction…. Quota Acts- 1920s

With your group… REVIEW OF HW: THE TECHNIQUES USED IDENTIFY SYMBOLS, LABELS, AND EXAGERATION Explain if the cartoonist uses an analogy or irony to make his point 2. Interpret the message of the cartoon regarding immigration. What, specifically, is the cartoonist’s opinion on immigration? Is it nativist? If so, why is immigration bad? Is it pro-immigration? If so, why is it good?

The Fool Pied Piper; Puck, 1909 June 2. THE PIED PIPER IS A GERMAN FAIRY TALE ABOUT A MAN WHO COULD LEAD THE RATS AWAY WITH HIS MUSIC. WHEN THE TOWNSFOLK DON’T PAY HIM, HE LEADS AWAY ALL THEIR CHILDREN LAX IMMIGRATION RUSSIA ITALY RATS LABELED: THIEF BANDIT MURDERER ASSASSIN The Fool Pied Piper; Puck, 1909 June 2. THE BLACK HAND

Apples read: Author Journalist Good citizen Politician Industrial worker Artist Social worker Publicist Judge “Restrictionist” 1916 Cartoon http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/nativism-2.htm

October 1, 1892, p. 213 “A Demand for Double Protection AMERICAN WORKMAN- “Now you have that gate shut, keep it shut! It is a good thing to protect me against the competition of European pauper labor; but why not also protect me against the millions of pauper laborers who are swarming here? We want no more immigration. Give me double protection!”

LOOKING BACKWARD. “They would close to the new-comer the bridge that carried them and their fathers over.”

ANARCHY ADMITTANCE FREE ANARCHY ANARCHY SABBATH DESECRATION INTERMINABLE SUPERSTITION

What were American views on immigration in the Gilded Age and early 1900s? NATIVIST PRO-IMMIGRATION

Read over the anti-immigration laws Read over the anti-immigration laws. Write down whether you would support them (1-10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDSeb2zHQ0

Anti-Immigration Laws: Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882  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 by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That … the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be… suspended…..

Anti-Immigration Laws: Gentlemen’s Agreement, (1907) U.S.-Japanese understanding, in which Japan agreed not to issue passports to emigrants to the United States, except to certain categories of business and professional men. In return, President Theodore Roosevelt agreed to urge the city of San Francisco to rescind an order by which children of Japanese parents were segregated from white students in the schools.

Anti-Immigration Laws: 1917 Immigration Act (passed over Woodrow Wilson’s veto) Bars from entering the United States… “undesirables”: "idiots, imbeciles, epileptics, alcoholics, poor, criminals, beggars, any person suffering attacks of insanity, those with tuberculosis, and those who have any form of dangerous contagious disease, aliens who have a physical disability that will restrict them from earning a living in the United States..., polygamists and anarchists, those who were against the organized government or those who advocated the unlawful destruction of property and those who advocated the unlawful assault of killing of any officer." Asians: “Any country not owned by the U.S. adjacent to the continent of Asia” Illiterates: "aliens over sixteen years of age, physically capable of reading, who cannot read the English language, or some other language or dialect, including Hebrew or Yiddish."

Anti-Immigration Laws: 1924 “Quota Act” The annual quota a (set number) of any nationality shall be 2% of the number of foreign-born individuals of such nationality resident in continental United States as determined by the United States Census of 1890… (why 1890 Census?)

“New Immigrants” Southern and Eastern Europe “exotic” races, cultures Illiterate, impoverished unskilled NATIVISM- anti-immigrant, or pro native born sentiment Quota Acts- 1920s