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Immigrants
Policies and Contributions
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Policy and Treatment
• Nativist movement:– The policy of favoring native-born
people over immigrants.– Those feared in the 1880s: • Chinese and Irish• Immigrants were willing to work in worse
conditions than most Americans
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Chinese Exclusion Act
• Banned Chinese immigration for 10 years.– Americans feared that immigrants would
take their jobs.
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Gentlemen’s Agreement with Japan
• Japan agreed not to issue passports for Japanese citizens wishing to work in the continental United States.
• In exchange, the United States agreed to accept the presence of Japanese immigrants already residing in America.– United States would permit the immigration of
• wives • children• parents of Japanese immigrants already in U.S.
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Contributions
• Immigrants contribute to American life– Religious diversity– Food– New words– Customs– Source of labor
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Urban Reform Efforts
• How the Other Half Lives (Jacob Riis)– Photojournalism: work documenting the filthy living
conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. – Exposes the slums to New York City’s upper and
middle class
• Riis pushed tenement reform to the front of New York’s political agenda– He called for
• Better housing• Adequate lighting• Sanitation• Construction of city parks and playgrounds
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Urban Reform Efforts continued…
• Settlement Houses– Hull House; Jane Addams• Offered services such as
– Daycare– Education– Health care to needy people in slum
neighborhoods