by Ruthanne Lum McCunn Ruthanne Lum McCunn has written several books about the role of the Chinese in American history. A Chinese American herself‚ McCunn lived in Boise‚ Idaho-the state in which her novel is set-with her father’s family. She later moved to San Francisco‚ where she wrote Thousand Pieces of Gold. The well-researched biographical novel serves as a depiction of the life of a typical female Asian immigrant in Idaho during the gold rush era. Events in History at the Time the Novel Takes
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Initially cast concurrently as exploitable laborers and as morally corrupt scapegoats for the social ills of the day‚ much like the Chinese before them and the Mexicans yet to come‚ immigrants from southern and eastern Europe were also remolded in the aftermath of WWII‚ notably as the civil rights movement took shape; the general social perception regarding people of Italian‚ Irish‚ Polish
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politicians and the public prior to the Civil War. 2. Explain the circumstances leading to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Why was its passage both pivotal and problematic? 3. Discuss the Immigration Restriction League. How did its attitudes and fears become law? By the same token‚ How did the end of World War I and the First Red Scare fuel the passage of the 1921 Immigration Act? 4. Discuss the complexities of Mexican immigration as outlined in Chapter 3. Explain how the Great Depression
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APUSH - Cornwell FEB 16-24‚ 2011 1. INDUSTRIAL AMERICA in the LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY • Corporate consolidation of industry • Effects of technological development on the worker and workplace • Labor and unions • National politics and influence of corporate power • Migration and immigration: changing face of the nation • Proponents and opponents of the new order (e.g. “Social Darwinism and Social Gospel”) AMSCO pp. 333-347 (CH 17) EV pp. 543-573 (CH 18) ESSENTIAL
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Chinese Immigration to the U.S. First Chinese to arrive in the U.S. was around 1820. Subsequent Chinese immigrants who came from the 1820s up to the late 1840s were mainly men. In 1852‚ the ratio of Chinese males to females in California was 1‚681:1. Due to the lack of Chinese women in the U.S. at that time‚ a number of men intermarried with Americans of Eastern European descent. However‚ the majority of male immigrants lived as bachelors. The first major immigration wave started around the
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luxuries became standard. Home ownership‚ cars‚ TVs‚ refrigerators. Owning a car was the American idea of freedom. Automobiles = increase in job. better travel‚ more employment opportunities‚ hotels‚ motels‚ fast food‚ movie theatres Federal Highway Act = more jobs‚ buses/trains/trolleys were replace by highways‚ increase employment‚ increased industrial production i.e. steel‚ rubber. TV’s changed American politics‚ TV shows‚ advertising America = Levittown homes‚ expansion‚ shopping malls‚ highways
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THE UPROOTED It is historian Oscar Handlin’s thesis that the demand that immigrants assimilate and surrender their separateness made them adjust to the American way of life; but they were treated immorally and were condemned under the shadow of consciousness that the immigrants were strangers and outsiders that would never belong. Immigrants would come with minds and spirits fresh for new impressions; and being in America would make Americans of them. The sense of being welcome gave them the assurance
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"First day of school!!‚" I shouted with nervous excitement as I jumped out the car to attend my first day at an American school. My anxiety was building high everyone said this would change my life. They say this is good for me; that my life will be better by starting school in America at such a young age. But all I felt was separation‚ and hunger as I sat on the "redpainted benches in the fall chill of noon" and last night ’s caldereta hiding beneath me‚ securing away any small differences
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were not uncommon; immigrants encountered social inequalities and injustices. The sudden spurt of immigrants and the opposition of them from nativists consequently caused an extreme suppression imposed by the US government. The 1924 National Origins Acts dramatically cut the number of immigrants allowed into the country. With this in effect‚ immigration‚ mostly targeted at Asian and Southern and Eastern Europeans‚ ended. Between 1880 and 1920‚ around 25 million people came to the US. (Nash‚ 236)
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Question 1 0 out of 1 points 1. In which year did the United States become the world’s greatest industrial power? Selected Answer: a. 1890 Correct Answer: d. 1910 Question 2 0 out of 1 points 2. One of the leading innovators in the production and marketing of goods at the turn of the century was Selected Answer: a. Henry George. Correct Answer: b. James Duke. Question 3 1 out of 1 points 3. In 1901
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