Nation of Immigration Handout

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Below are political cartoons, poems, and excerpts from legislation surrounding immigration tothe United States in 1920s !ollow the directions for each artifact

I. Opening activity Reading cartoons" Students will stud# two $ %eppler cartoons &'ocument " and B(

1 $ %eppler drew the first cartoon in 1))0 and the second in 1)9* 'escri+e the twocartoons hat are the differences in point of -iew +etween them. h# do #ou

thin/ attitudes on immigration changed.

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2 'o #ou thin/ that there has +een a change of attitudes on immigration recentl# in thiscountr#. n what wa# did the attac/s on 911 influence immigration policies. n what wa# has

the su+ect of 3illegal immigration4 influenced attitudes toward immigrants.

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Document A

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Students will read two poems on attitudes towards immigration5 'ocument 6 and '

1 How does 7mma 8aarus portra# immigrants in 3:he New 6olossus4. h# is her poemon the Statue of 8i+ert#.

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2 How does :homas Baile# "ldrich portra# immigrants in 3Unguarded ;ate4. h# is he

concerned a+out immigration.

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'ocument 6

The New Colossus+# 7mma 8aarus, 1))*

Not li/e the +raen giant of ;ree/ fame,

with conwashed, sunset gates shall stand" might# woman with a torch, whose flame

s the imprisoned lightning, and her name ?other of 7xiles

!rom her +eacon>hand;lows world>wide welcome= her mild e#es command

:he air>+ridged har+or that twin cities frame

3%eep, ancient lands, #our storied pomp@4 cries she

ith silent lips 3;i-e me #our tired, #our poor,Aour huddled masses #earning to +reathe free,

:he wretched refuse of #our teeming shore

Send these, the homeless, tempest>tost to me, lift m# lamp +eside the golden door@4

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'ocument '

mmigration "ct of 192Unguarded ;ates +# :homas Baile# "ldrich, 1)9C

ide open and unguarded stand our gates,Named of the four winds, North, South, 7ast and est=

Dortals that lead to an enchanted land

Ef cities, forests, fields of li-ing gold,Fast prairies, lordl# summits touched with snow,

?aestic ri-ers sweeping proudl# past

:he "ra+Gs date>palm and the NorsemanGs pine

" realm wherein are fruits of e-er# one,"irs of all climes, for lo@ throughout the #ear

:he red rose +lossoms somewherea rich land,

" later 7den planted in the wilds,

ith not an inch of earth within its +oundBut if a sla-eGs foot press it sets him free

Here, it is written, :oil shall ha-e its wage,"nd Honor honor, and the hum+lest man

Stand le-el with the highest in the law

Ef such a land ha-e men in dungeons dreamed,"nd with the -ision +rightening in their e#es

;one smiling to the fagot and the sword

ide open and unguarded stand our gates,"nd through them presses a wild motle# throng

?en from the Folga and the :artar steppes,

!eatureless figures of the Hoang>Ho,?ala#an, Sc#thian, :euton, %elt, and Sla-,

!l#ing the Eld orldGs po-ert# and scorn=

:hese +ringing with them un/nown gods and rites,:hose, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws

n street and alle# what strange tongues are loud,

"ccents of menace alien to our air,

Foices that once the :ower of Ba+el /new@E 8i+ert#, white ;oddess@ s it well

:o lea-e the gates unguarded. En th# +reast

!old SorrowGs children, soothe the hurts of fate8ift the down>trodden, +ut with hand of steel

Sta# those who to th# sacred portals come

:o waste the gifts of freedom Ha-e a care8est from th# +row the clustered stars +e torn

"nd trampled in the dust !or so of old

:he thronging ;oth and Fandal trampled Iome,

"nd where the temples of the 6aesars stood

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:he lean wolf unmolested made her lair

III. III. Document analysis/group work Debating history

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" Students read 'ocument 7 &multiple excerpts( for homewor/

B or/ing in groups, students are to formulate arguments for an in>class de+ate on whether ornot to pass the mmigration "ct of 192

6 'i-ide the class into groups of four 7ach group will identif# two students in fa-or of the

mmigration "ct of 192, and two opposed7ach group will spend 10J1C minutes de+ating the issue, ma/ing sure that the# support their

points with reason and e-idence, and that the# respond directl# to the points +eing made +# the

opposing side

' :he class will then recon-ene and de+ate the issue as a whole

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mmigration "ct of 192

thin/ that we ha-e sufficient stoc/ in "merica now for us to shut the door, "mericanie

what we ha-e, and sa-e the resources of "merica for the natural increase of our population +elie-e that our particular ideas, social, moral, religious, and political, ha-e demon> strated, +#

-irtue of the progress we ha-e made and the character of people that we are, that we ha-e the

highest ideals of an# mem+er of the human famil# or an# nation e ha-e demonstrated the factthat the human famil#, certaint# the predominant +reed in "merica, can go-ern themsel-es +# a

direct go-ernment of the people thin/ we now ha-e suffi> cient population in our countr#

for us to shut the door and to +reed up a pure, unadulterated "merican citienship :han/ ;od

we ha-e in "merica perhaps the largest percentage of an# countr# in the world of the pure,unadulterated "nglo>Saxon stoc/= certainl# the great> est of an# nation in the Nordic +reed t is

for the preser-ation of that splendid stoc/ that has characteried us that would ma/e this not an

as#lum for the oppressed of all countries, +ut a countr# to assimilate and perfect that splendidt#pe of manhood that has made "merica the foremost Nation in her progress and in her power,

and #et the #oungest of all the nations e ha-e population enough to>da# without throwing

wide our doors and eopardiing the interests of this countr# +# pouring into it men whowillingl# +ecome the sla-es of those who emplo# them in manipulating these forces of nature,

and the few reap the enormous +enefits that accrue therefrom

&Source5 Speech +# 7llison 'uIant Smith, "pril 9, 192, 6ongressional Iecord, K)th 6ongress, 1st

Session &ashington '65 ;o-ernment Drinting Effice, 192(, -ol KC, C,9K1JC,9K2(

7xcerpted from 3Eur New Nordic mmigration Dolic#,4 8iterar# 'igest 10 ?a# 1925 12J1*

http5www>personalumdumicheduLppennoc/doc>immig"cthtm

Unless immigration is numericall# restrained she will +e o-erwhelmed +# a -ast migra> tion

of peoples from the war>stric/en countries of 7urope Such a migration could not fail to ha-e a+aleful effect upon "merican wages and standards of li-ing, and it would increase mightil# our

pro+lem of assimilating the foreign>+orn who are alread# here Eut of these thoughts ha-e risen

the general demands for limitation of the num+er of immigrants who ma# enter this countr#

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:here has come a+out a general realiation of the fact that the races of men who ha-e +een

coming to us in recent #ears are wholl# dissimilar to the nati-e> +orn "mericans= that the# are

untrained in self>go-ernment a facult# that it has ta/en the Northwestern 7uropeans man#centuries to ac+eing

talian>"mericans are found in all wal/s and classes of life common hard la+or, the

trades, +usiness, law, medicine, dentistr#, art, literature, +an/ing, and so forth :he# rapidl#+ecome "mericanied, +uild homes, and ma/e themsel-es into good citiens Ene finds them

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+# thousands digging streets, sewers, and +uilding foundations, and in the automo+ile and iron

and steel fa+ric factories of -arious sorts :he# do the hard wor/ that the nati-e>+orn "merican

disli/es Iapidl# the# rise in life and oin the so>called middle and upper classes :he Dol>ish>"mericans are as industrious and as frugal and as lo#al to our institutions as an# class of

people who ha-e come to the shores of this countr# in the past *00 #ears :he# are essentiall#

home +uilders, and the# ha-e come to this countr# to sta# :he# learn the 7nglish language ascause he o+ected 3-iolentl#4 to +lue laws and the +urning or hanging of rheumatic old women

on witchcraft charges He would not 3assimilate4 and was 3a gra-e menace to "merican nstitu>

tions and democratic go-ernment4

:he racial discriminations of this +ill are un>"merican

&Source5 Speech +# Io+ert H 6lanc#, "pril ), 192, 6ongressional Iecord, K)th 6ongress, 1st Session

&ash> ington '65 ;o-ernment Drinting Effice, 192(, -ol KC, C,929JC,9*2

http5histor#mattersgmuedudC09(

7xcerpted from illiam " hite 6ondemns 'eportations &1922(, 7mporia &%ansas( ;aette,$anuar# ), 1922

:he "ttorne# ;eneral seems to +e seeing red He is rounding up e-er# manner of radical in thecountr#= e-er# man who hopes for a +etter world is in danger of deportation +# the "ttorne#

;eneral :he whole +usiness is un>"merican t should +e agreed that a man ma# +elie-e as

he chooses t should +e agreed that when he preaches -iolence he is distur+ing the peace and

should +e put in ail He should +e allowed to sa# what he pleases so long as he ad-ocates

legal constitutional methods of procedure $ust +ecause a man does not +elie-e this go-ernmentis good is no reason wh# he should +e deported :he deportation +usiness is going to ma/e

mart#rs of a lot of idiots whose cause is not worth it

&Source5 :he "merican Spirit, !ourth 7dition, ed :homas " Baile#, '6 Heath and 6ompan#,8exington, ?"5 19)(

"merican institutions rest solel# on good citienship :he# were created +# people who had a+ac/ground of self>go-ernment New arri-als should +e limited to our capacit# to a+sor+ them

into the ran/s of good citienship "merica must +e /ept "merican !or this purpose, it is

necessar# to continue a polic# of restricted immigration t would lie well to ma/e such

immigration of a selecti-e nature with some inspection at the source, and +ased either on a priorcensus or upon the record of naturaliation 7ither method would insure the admission of those

with the largest capacit# and +est intention of +ecoming citiens am con-inced that our presenteconomic and social conditions warrant a limitation of those to +e admitted e should find

additional safet# in a law re ers of the "merican spirit ought not to settle in "merica

&Source5 6al-in 6oolidgeGs first ?essage to 6ongress, http5-darecomfulford1)9_192htmQfift#(

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