HIST 151 1st Edition Lecture 11 Outline of Last Lecture I Chapter 18 Business and Politics in the Gilded Age 1865 1900 cont Outline of Current Lecture II Chapter 19 The City and its Workers 1870 1900 Old v New Immigrants Xenophobia Birds of Passage and Living on the Wind Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 Jim Crow How the Other Half Lives Jacob Riis Current Lecture Old V New Old is good new is bad Old immigrants came from Germany England Ireland France Scotland and Norway o They re considered good now because they look like the Americans they re monotheistic and literate as well as have blonde hair blue eyes and white skin New immigrants even their own nations loathed them Czechoslovakians Polish Italian and Jewish o Did not speak English poverty stricken brought organized crime mobs brought large amounts of children brown haired brown eyed olive toned skin o They did have one skill they knew how to work the land Represent the largest recorded mass of migration in human history o Between 5 15 million people Xenophobia Heightened fear of something foreign or strange Mainstream traditional response towards foreigners coming to the U S Foreigners given strange looks were physically threatened and even had congressional laws placed against them Encapsulate what many Americans are fearful of to them the foreigners were never good Birds of Passage and Living on the Wind These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Editorials of the day used these two terms to describe immigrants Rarely did immigrants lay down permanent residency angered U S Citizens B O P would flit from one area to another o Working filling their pockets with cash and leaving o Would not pay their taxes and would not vote L O W Spent as low as possible pool in resources to buy things often slept five to a bed to save money and space also for heat o General appearance and quality of life are bad Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 American legislation isolated Chinese from entry to the U S o Prohibited by law to enter the U S o Any Chinese living in the U S were strongly encouraged to leave Also begins to separate groups like the mentally ill and impoverished Jim Crow Reference term slang blacks belong at one place and whites belong in another White America Black America legalized racism accepted segregation Jim Crow was created from a character in a musical white actor in black face eventually adopted the term Severe forms of segregation ensued How the Other Half Lives Jacob Riis Jacob Riis was a foreigner immigrating to the U S Foreign investigative reporter looked around cities and noticed suffering o How the Other Half Lives early progressive publications that called attention to new immigrants families and children 1st photograph muck rucking offering Focused mainly in and around the five boroughs of New York City Poverty crime prostitution and tuberculosis were all topics covered in his novel Mostly examined the lives of the Italians who were the most negatively reflected group