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Objective 2.4- The Era of Immigration

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the following is an excerpt from a The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus it's inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty  getting reads give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe free The Wretched refuse of your teeming Shore  send these the homeless tempest-tost to me I lift my lamp beside the golden door The New Colossus is about the Statue of Liberty which is speaking to the countries of the world and pouring them to send those that they do I want to America the land of opportunity  the period of 1870 to 1920 marks the greatest. Of immigration in American history America is now in Melting Pot Melting Pot is a mixture of people and different cultures and different races the beauty of American society is the diverse cultural contributions of Europeans Latinos Asians Native Americans Pacific Islanders and people from all over the world the first group of immigrants focus on our European immigrants between 1870 and 1920 over 20 million Europeans came to the United States in the early periods of the Arab immigration most European immigrants came from Western and Northern Europe countries like Ireland England and France in the later part of the era most European immigrants came from eastern and southern Europe countries like Russia Germany and Italy there are several reasons why European immigrants came to the United States during this era they wanted to escape religious persecution Rising population who's in Europe and satisfy a need for reform and a new beginning early American colonists many European immigrants were fleeing religious persecution specifically Russian Jews what persecution in czarist Russia with Rising populations in European countries overcrowding and a lack of Farmland meant that America was a viable option to start a new life and economic beginning and many Europeans tired and weary of A Century Of War and Chaos decide to resettle their lives in America a nation with political stability democratic freedom and economic Prosperity the next group of immigrants are Asian immigrants the reason Asian immigrants came to America was for wages and work they were hired because they would work plus then American Realty their money and send it home where it had more purchasing power you need seeing 48 Asians particularly from China and Japan came in they were seeking The Fortunes of the California Gold Rush another industry in which Asian immigrants was in the railroads cheap and option to jobs away from American workers does resentment and led to violence towards them by 1920 they're over 200,000 agent immigrants living on the west coast with the massive amount of immigrants coming into the country Gold Coast immigration checkpoint stations were needed in order to manage entry into the United States on the East Coast the most famous immigration checkpoint station was Ellis Ellis Island in New York and it was the arrival point for All European immigrants coming into the United States of the arrived 20% were detained sometime and only 2% were sent home meaning a very high success rate of entry into the United States on arrival European immigrants had to pass a inspection had proved they had at least $25 to their name had to pass a literacy test and had to provide proper paperwork to prove their identity fun fact migrate turn it's a ride from Italy through Ellis Island at the turn of the century the main immigration station on the west coast was called Angel Island is located in San Francisco Harbor 0.4 all immigrants coming from Asia Angel Island examination process Island interrogation by US government officials inspectors decided entry not test meaning an individual decided if you were to make it into the country or not and they had a biased towards they could easily prevent you from entering the country detention rates and Angel and were much higher than that of Ellis Island and the treatment of immigrants while being detained was much worse they were plane filthy shocks for hours and sometimes days once in America Asian immigrants faced discrimination more than any other group their language look and customary clothing with strange to most Americans it was something that I've never seen before Americans fear they were taking scares jobs away they were willing to work for less than whites some whites believe that left unchecked this Riff Raff would ruin America for many immigrants life in America was not all of his cracked up to be they faced many problems once they enter the country a serious problem faced by many immigrants was culture shock culture shock was the panic and confusion face from living in a strange siding with new customs and beliefs imagine being dropped call Downtown Tokyo by yourself you don't know the language you don't know the customs and you have no way of knowing what the properly do in society you would feel utterly alone and confused culture shock allowed Americans to take advantage of most immigrants Americans with excessive rent to immigrants David inflate prices of products and thieves and robbers wood how do you steal possessions away from vulnerable families to survive culture shock immigrants moved into ethnic communities in urban cities at the community's allowed immigrants to work live and worship with their own people without the fear of being discriminated or taken advantage of today we see these ethnic communities and every major American city Little Italy Koreatown Little Tokyo Chinatown many of these ethnic communities from this time. Still Thrive today another problem at immigrants encountered was add you have nativism is anti-immigrant sentiment and favoritism toward native-born white Americans nativist generated Southern and Eastern Europeans Asians the most they felt that Southern and Eastern Europeans have darker complexion and less educated they also didn't understand Asian Customs because they were so different from those in America I thought that their willingness to work for Less with steel jobs away from white Americans most immigrants assimilated into American culture those that didn't face the Wrath and Pro of nativist issue of Asian immigrants stealing jobs away from white Americans spurred American labor groups to Lobby to end Asian immigration altogether into the United States in 1882 Congress pass the Chinese Exclusion Act this act banned permanent Chinese immigration to the United States for 10 years then in 1892 the Act was extended for another 10 years in 1902 the Act was extended officially until 1943 altogether means that the United States Congress at one point in American history banned Chinese immigration into the United States for almost sixty years in 1907 government arrange the gentlemen's agreement this diplomatic agreement between Japan and the united states allow the United States to desegregate California schools allowing whites used to go to school alongside Asian students as part of the condition Japan would have to limit the amount of immigrants it sent to the United States based on the quarter system on a play bases essentially United States toll Japan to discourage Japanese immigrants from coming to the United States immigration is directly tied to many political and social that we talked about today the role of immigrants in society entry into the United States immigration checkpoints prejudice against immigrants legal immigration shoes that were important during the Gilded Age are still important today when it comes to immigration the air of immigration help to mold American society into what you see today American culture is greatly influenced by the contributions of immigrants Americans are able to experience different cultures in a ways that other countries are not able to because of the air of immigration

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