Magic Washer Analysis
I believe that the Chinese Immigration to the United States jumped from a few hundred a year to move 20,000 in 1852 because of the gold in California. When the Chinese came over to the U.S. they headed to the Gold Country. They would, ‘send work back home about the riches to be found there’. ‘Chinese American miners soon became a common sight in the mountains of California’.
The Chinese immigrants in America faced a lot of harassment/racism in the mid-1800s. A specific form of harassment was financial harassment. John Bigler decided, ‘the Chinese [are] to be a threat to the state’s welfare’. As a result of that, the California legislators passed a tax that took ‘more than half of the average Chinese miner’s wages’. This decision caused …show more content…
a lot of outright violence in the years to come, many Chinamen were murders.
Chinese railroad workers were treated both similarly to and different from their white counterparts when they helped build the Central Pacific Railroad. The Chinamen were paid the same amount as their white counterparts. Alternatively, they were not supplied with lunch, unlike their white counterpart. Also, they didn’t get as much recognition as their counterpart. They weren’t acknowledged for their accomplishments when the railroad was finished.
The economic downturn of the 1870s hurt Chinese immigrants living in the United States. ‘As the recession worsened, unemployment rose’. People were losing their jobs and they blamed the Chinese immigrants. Chinese immigrants were subject to immense racist language and violence. That ‘included brutal beating’ and ‘burning of many of their[the Chineses’] businesses’.
Two ways that Chinese were “legally” hurt when coming to the United States in the late 1800s were that Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. The law saw that Chinese immigrants were not allowed to enter the U.S. without going through the ‘rigorous screening process to prove that they qualified for admission’. Another law that was passed by state and local governments ‘forced Chinese to shave off their typical long braids of hair’. The governments were trying to take away their cultural norms to make them see ‘more American’ and to make nativist feel for more comfortable.
After analyzing the political cartoon, United States’ “Magic Washer”, I think the message is pretty clear.
The message states that the US doesn’t want or need the Chinese immigrants. In the cartoon it clearly illustrates Uncle Same kicking out a couple of Chinese immigrants. Uncle Sam has this bucket “Magic Washer”. I think that this can be seen a couple of different lights. One is, Uncle Same is washing away(getting ride of) the dirt that the Chinese have brought as well as the Chinese themselves. The text next to the Uncle Same states, “Don’t us this if you want to be dirty.” Another way it can be seen is that the Magic Washer takes care of the jobs that some of the Chinese had. I believe, from prior knowledge, a common job the Chinese took was a cleaner. Since the US citizens have Magic Washer now they don’t need the Chinese to do it for them. Since the Chinese not longer have a job and can’t support themselves, they need to leave the …show more content…
US.
Despite the various hardships that Chinese faced when coming to the United States in the 1800s they continued to emigrate to our country.
They did this for many reason. Referring back to the beginning of the text, ‘Conditions in China had been growing stable’. As conditions worsened in China, the Chinese heard about the promise of a better life in the U.S. As more and more Chinese immigrates came to the U.S., rumors floated to and word spread back to China about the opportunity the U.S. gave to the immigrates. Some of it might have been peer pressure, going to the U.S. might have meant you have money and therefor power. It might have been ‘glamours’ to the people in your community for you to go to the U.S. This isn’t from the text but in the beginning of the Titanic, all of the people were waving to and happy for the people heading to the U.S. They had a sense of pride for the immigrates. That could have been how it was in China at the beginning of the 1850s. The more encouragement they got, the more common it was to go to the
U.S.
The Chinese immigrants in America faced a lot of harassment/racism in the mid-1800s. A specific form of harassment was financial harassment. John Bigler decided, ‘the Chinese [are] to be a threat to the state’s welfare’. As a result of that, the California legislators passed a tax that took ‘more than half of the average Chinese miner’s wages’. This decision caused …show more content…
a lot of outright violence in the years to come, many Chinamen were murders.
Chinese railroad workers were treated both similarly to and different from their white counterparts when they helped build the Central Pacific Railroad. The Chinamen were paid the same amount as their white counterparts. Alternatively, they were not supplied with lunch, unlike their white counterpart. Also, they didn’t get as much recognition as their counterpart. They weren’t acknowledged for their accomplishments when the railroad was finished.
The economic downturn of the 1870s hurt Chinese immigrants living in the United States. ‘As the recession worsened, unemployment rose’. People were losing their jobs and they blamed the Chinese immigrants. Chinese immigrants were subject to immense racist language and violence. That ‘included brutal beating’ and ‘burning of many of their[the Chineses’] businesses’.
Two ways that Chinese were “legally” hurt when coming to the United States in the late 1800s were that Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. The law saw that Chinese immigrants were not allowed to enter the U.S. without going through the ‘rigorous screening process to prove that they qualified for admission’. Another law that was passed by state and local governments ‘forced Chinese to shave off their typical long braids of hair’. The governments were trying to take away their cultural norms to make them see ‘more American’ and to make nativist feel for more comfortable.
After analyzing the political cartoon, United States’ “Magic Washer”, I think the message is pretty clear.
The message states that the US doesn’t want or need the Chinese immigrants. In the cartoon it clearly illustrates Uncle Same kicking out a couple of Chinese immigrants. Uncle Sam has this bucket “Magic Washer”. I think that this can be seen a couple of different lights. One is, Uncle Same is washing away(getting ride of) the dirt that the Chinese have brought as well as the Chinese themselves. The text next to the Uncle Same states, “Don’t us this if you want to be dirty.” Another way it can be seen is that the Magic Washer takes care of the jobs that some of the Chinese had. I believe, from prior knowledge, a common job the Chinese took was a cleaner. Since the US citizens have Magic Washer now they don’t need the Chinese to do it for them. Since the Chinese not longer have a job and can’t support themselves, they need to leave the …show more content…
US.
Despite the various hardships that Chinese faced when coming to the United States in the 1800s they continued to emigrate to our country.
They did this for many reason. Referring back to the beginning of the text, ‘Conditions in China had been growing stable’. As conditions worsened in China, the Chinese heard about the promise of a better life in the U.S. As more and more Chinese immigrates came to the U.S., rumors floated to and word spread back to China about the opportunity the U.S. gave to the immigrates. Some of it might have been peer pressure, going to the U.S. might have meant you have money and therefor power. It might have been ‘glamours’ to the people in your community for you to go to the U.S. This isn’t from the text but in the beginning of the Titanic, all of the people were waving to and happy for the people heading to the U.S. They had a sense of pride for the immigrates. That could have been how it was in China at the beginning of the 1850s. The more encouragement they got, the more common it was to go to the
U.S.