1. Unit 4: The Gilded Age

2. Immigration Political Cartoon Analysis
Analyze the cartoons by filling in the chart in your notebook
Work with your table mates to make sure you all understand – help each other!
You have 20 minutes to finish up

3. Increasing Immigration, Increasing Restrictions
Intense discrimination for certain groups:
Irish, Chinese, & Japanese

4. Nativism
Policy of protecting the interests of native-born inhabitants against those of immigrants
“Nativists” fought against immigration

5. Chinese Exclusion act Approved spring of 1882
First significant law restricting immigration
10-year ban on Chinese immigration & those already here could not become citizens
Renewed for another 10 years in 1892
Chinese ineligible for citizenship until 1943

6. Use the primary sources to complete your graphic organizer.
Chinese Exclusion act
Use the primary sources to complete your graphic organizer.
Summarize your findings on the back.