and without wages. However this is not true. As Lodge said “The injury of unrestricted immigration to American wages...is bad enough” (Doc 1). This statement in fact tries to persuade the reader into thinking that immigrants will steal the jobs and the wages of American people. However while lodge says this it is not at all the truth. Immigrants actually create jobs for
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Gjon Ljucovic 10/26/08 DBQ on Immigration Ms. Cavalli Immigration is the act of people entering into a new country to settle permanently. People immigrated to the United States starting in the 1820’s primarily‚ and still do to this very day! During the 1820’s until the late 1870’s‚ mainly only immigrants from the Northern and Western Europe came to the U.S‚ and these immigrants were called “Old Immigrants.” During the 1880’s and until the 1920’s is when the “New
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States received about 60% of the world’s immigrants. Population expansion in developed areas of the world‚ improved methods of transportation. Reasons for immigration‚ like those for migration‚ are often economic‚ although religious or political factors may be very important. These economic‚ political‚ and social conditions led to the "New" immigration after 1890. Take for instance the political reasons‚ where new immigrants favored democratic America where citizens had a voice in government because European
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From the late 1800s to mid 1900s there were many Acts and restrictions for foreigners to come into the United States. The Immigration Act of 1924 was very important because it had many effects on immigration and in US population. There were three factors that probably influenced Congress to pass the Immigration Act of 1924. These three factors were due to ethnic control‚ economic issues‚ and political control. First of all‚ Americans wanted to stay "white"‚ they did not wanted aliens to come and
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While economic competition was a significant factor in passing the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882‚ nativism became another influential factor. Americans started to feel threatened by the massive presence of Chinese immigrants in the United States. In Document C‚ the speech given to the working men of San Francisco was created to encourage Americans that they need to reclaim “their rightful” jobs‚ and it was proclaimed‚ “We should all understand that this state of things cannot be much longer endured
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Keianni Williams February/2/2011 AP U.S History Throughout the years 1880 through 1925 the United States witnessed a rise in immigration. Industrialization provided greater opportunities for Americans. America’s gilded age gave off the illusion of a utopian society. The visions of such society attracted many foreigners from parts of Europe and Asia. Though these foreigners helped with the expansion of the U.S‚ economic‚ political‚ and social tensions arose. These tensions included scarcity
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Immigration jumped from a low of 3.5 million in 1890 to a high of 9 million in the first decade of the new century. Immigrants went on a journey to America due to escaping religious‚ racial and political persecution or seeking relief from a lack of economic opportunity or famine pushing many immigrants out of their homelands. Hungarians‚ Poles‚ Slovaks‚ Bohemians and Italians went to find work in a new country such as America. However‚ the vast majority of immigrants crowded into the growing cities
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In 1924 the congress passed a new Immigration Act effectively ending all Japanese immigration to the U.S.‚ but this did not violate the right of the Japanese Americans in World War II. (Doc A) Document A‚ C‚ D‚ E‚ and F all support on why the U.S. government did not violate their rights. There were several causes of the internment but the main cause of the internment was that the “Japanese naval and air forces attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii‚ bringing the U.S. into World
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religions. Uncle Sam was also plugging his nose‚ conveying how many Americans were disgusted with the immigrants. A pamphlet from 1885‚ that showed the open hatred towards immigrants in the United States‚ tried to convince American citizens to restrict immigration by saying “Protect yourself and your children against ruinous labor
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