Immigration Dbq Analysis
Immigrants should not be restricted from coming into the country, they will create more jobs for Americans, and they are only looking for better opportunities then in their home land. Immigrants who come into the country will provide more jobs for Americans that are in the country. Americans worry that because immigrants work for low pay that they will be left without a job. Americans will be left without a job 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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This belief led them to make the immigration act. This would set “The quota for immigrants entering the U.S. was set at two percent of the total of any given nation’s residents in the U.S. as reported in the 1890 census;” (Doc 3). However this is not true because this immigration act was in fact targeting the smaller population countries in Eastern Europe. This happened because the U.S. did not want them into the country instead they wanted the people from great britain who look like them and speak the same language as them. This is shown in the chart when in 1925 after this act was taken place the amount of people from Great Britain coming into the U.S. was 27,172. Compare this to the amount of Eastern Europeans which is 1,566 and the Italians 6,303. This shows that the Americans are not worried about the overpopulation of the country but the fact that they did not want to let in people of different countries other than Great Britain. In conclusion immigrants should not be restricted to come into the United States because everyone deserves equal opportunity, and a chance to start
This belief led them to make the immigration act. This would set “The quota for immigrants entering the U.S. was set at two percent of the total of any given nation’s residents in the U.S. as reported in the 1890 census;” (Doc 3). However this is not true because this immigration act was in fact targeting the smaller population countries in Eastern Europe. This happened because the U.S. did not want them into the country instead they wanted the people from great britain who look like them and speak the same language as them. This is shown in the chart when in 1925 after this act was taken place the amount of people from Great Britain coming into the U.S. was 27,172. Compare this to the amount of Eastern Europeans which is 1,566 and the Italians 6,303. This shows that the Americans are not worried about the overpopulation of the country but the fact that they did not want to let in people of different countries other than Great Britain. In conclusion immigrants should not be restricted to come into the United States because everyone deserves equal opportunity, and a chance to start