racism towards immigrants by: hannah, jason, julia, and phoebe
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Racism Towards Immigrants
By: Hannah, Jason, Julia, and Phoebe
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Cities and Immigrants…
• 1920- Urban population passed 50%.– New York- 2.2 million– Chicago- 1 million– Detroit- 425,000
• Many people came from rural areas in the U.S.• Russia, Japan, China, Mexico, and European
Jews were the primary immigrants.
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City Life
• Immigrants lived in tenements without proper utilities like plumbing and electricity.
• They often had to work in factories for a low wage.
• The work force was increasing exponentially.– As a result, the working conditions became
deplorable.• Many immigrant children were forced to
work too.
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Immigration Restrictions
• Immigration Restriction League: called for literacy test to cut down the flow of immigrants.
• American Federation of Labor: supported immigration restrictions
• Many Progressives supported immigration restrictions • Congress produced literacy test bills in 1896, 1913,
and 1915.– They were all eventually vetoed
“All the great problems… are tied up with the one great problem of foreign immigration.”
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The Eugenics Movement
• Eugenics- the control of reproduction to alter the characteristics of a plant or animal species.
• 1904, the Carnegie Foundation funded a genetics research center on Long Island
• Charles B. Davenport- zoologist and racist who believed in eugenics to alter the human race
• States began to legalize sterilization of o Criminalso Sex offenders o People with mental problems
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Buck v. Bell
• Carrie Buck against Dr. J.H. Bell• Carrie said that the ESA violated her Constitutional
rights as an American.• Carrie, her daughter, and her mother were
“feebleminded and promiscuous” • Carrie and her mother(Emma) were already
institutionalized at the time when the Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act of 1924.
• Decision- To uphold the ESA and Buck was sterilized