Dbq New Immigration Research Paper
New immigrants faced several challenges upon moving to America in the 1800’s. These challenges include assimilation, exclusion, and overcrowding. Assimilation is the absorption of immigrants/outsiders into a certain culture. This essay will cover five different documents explaining the aforementioned points with sufficient evidence. Starting off: assimilation. A challenge immigrants had to face is assimilation. Document 1, a political cartoon, showed a German shop and an American shop with most similarities except for different names. Johann Schmidt had an openly German shop with Frankfurt sausages and Straussburg pie. John Smith had Cambridge sausages and Melton Mowbray pie. The same man stood in the front of both the stores. This
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Document 6, a racist handbill, exclaimed about Chinese exclusion. “Hip! Hurrah! Chinese excluded!” It exclaims. This is literal exclusion of Chinese immigrants. Come on! They had a BILL against them! Document 4 is a political cartoon from Puck Magazine (1893) depicting old immigrants preventing a new immigrant from entering. In the tall shadows of the old immigrants were their younger selves, as immigrants. The old immigrants were excluding the new one. So, new immigrants had to face exclusion (as proved by Documents 6 and 4). Finally, immigrants faced overcrowding. Document 3 shows the housing of immigrants moved to America. With 7+ people in the picture alone, more garments they could ever dream of wearing with their family alone were hung about. This reveals many people lived in such a house. In such a small house with so many people, the idea of overcrowding was much more real than a simple idea. No tenement houses were big enough for several families to live happily. Considering the facts presented, this essay (plus all aforementioned documents and evidence) hereby states that new immigrants coming to North America after 1880 faced exclusion, assimilation, and overcrowding. The provided factual evidence and explanations clearly prove tenement homes were overcrowded, assimilation would make or break the immigrants experience here, and old immigrants despised the
Document 6, a racist handbill, exclaimed about Chinese exclusion. “Hip! Hurrah! Chinese excluded!” It exclaims. This is literal exclusion of Chinese immigrants. Come on! They had a BILL against them! Document 4 is a political cartoon from Puck Magazine (1893) depicting old immigrants preventing a new immigrant from entering. In the tall shadows of the old immigrants were their younger selves, as immigrants. The old immigrants were excluding the new one. So, new immigrants had to face exclusion (as proved by Documents 6 and 4). Finally, immigrants faced overcrowding. Document 3 shows the housing of immigrants moved to America. With 7+ people in the picture alone, more garments they could ever dream of wearing with their family alone were hung about. This reveals many people lived in such a house. In such a small house with so many people, the idea of overcrowding was much more real than a simple idea. No tenement houses were big enough for several families to live happily. Considering the facts presented, this essay (plus all aforementioned documents and evidence) hereby states that new immigrants coming to North America after 1880 faced exclusion, assimilation, and overcrowding. The provided factual evidence and explanations clearly prove tenement homes were overcrowded, assimilation would make or break the immigrants experience here, and old immigrants despised the