6.8 & 6.9 Immigrant Factors & Responses
Question 1
Evaluate the extent to which the immigrant experience was a challenge for immigrants at the turn of the century.
Source 1.1
Document 1: Joseph Keppler, political cartoonist and editor of Puck Magazine (humor magazine_),_ “Welcome All Cartoon” 1880
Source 1.2
Document 2: J.H. Donahey, Cleveland Americanization Committee, “Many Peoples, One Language” 1917
Source 1.3
Document 3: Judge Magazine, “The Proposed Emigrant Dumping Site” 1903
Caption: Statue of Liberty - “Mr. Wisdom, if you are going to make this island a garbage dump, I am going back to France.”
Source 1.4
Document 4: Joseph Keppler, political cartoonist and editor of Puck Magazine (humor magazine_),_ “Looking Backward” 1893
Caption: “They would close to the newcomer the bridge that carried them and their fathers over”
Source 1.5
Document 5: "A Skeleton in His Closet".
Uncle Sam holding paper "Protest against Russian exclusion of Jewish Americans" and looking in shock at Chinese skeleton labeled "American exclusion of Chinese" in closet (January 3, 1912)
Source 1.6
Document 6: Judge Magazine “A Demand for Double Protection” 1892
Caption: American Working Man; “Now you have that gate shut, keep it shut! It is a good thing to protect me against the competition of European pauper labor; but why not also protect me against the millions of pauper laborers who are swarming here? We want no more immigration. Give me double protection!”
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