AMH2097 Final Study Guide Chinese American Lecture Chinatown San Francisco CA o Location of the Chinese Immigrants o Ethnic Enclave Coolies Hard Labor o Jobs reinforce stereotypes o Gold Miners Foreign miners Tax 1852 Chinese are taxed for working 3 6 month Since Chinese are not allowed to buy land they work for others When working in mines Chinese are accused of stealing Start strip search cavity searching White price for gold vs Chinese price for gold White gold is 50 higher than Chinese price Feminine Jobs o Domestics Reinforce stereotypes Making clothes Washing clothes Make food Other jobs included o Businesses o Fisherman Transcontinental Railroad o Lighters People who light the fuse Get paid before they got to the mountain Most deadly job at time Migrant Farm Work o Do not own land o Move from farm to farm to farm o Constant job for the Chinese o Works for Chinese when they return to china Bachelor Society Chinatown The Six Companies Kongsi o Since mainly men were sent over to California very few women were known for living in o Called a bachelor society because of the so few numbers of women AMH2097 Final Study Guide o Like institutional catholic church o Each company asks for loyalty o Kongsi can get jobs banking opportunities or death in exchange for loyalty to one company Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Society 1880 o Made up by the 6 companies o Control San Francisco CA Vice Districts o WASPs called Chinatown vice districts o Chinatown focused economy on opium and prostitution Just because it is illegal doesn t make it right Opium Dens o Lots of beds in it o Chinese women service you prostitution o Most Chinese could not afford opium dens many WASPs came to the dens o Gave Chinese bad name Anti Chinese Crusade o Yellow Peril WASPs like cheap labor but others don t Hate Chinese because they are taking others jobs Included political cartoons People vs Hall 1854 o Chinese cannot testify against whites o a race that nature has marked as inferior Naturalization Act of 1870 o About citizenship o Chinese cannot be citizens of the united states o US wants Chinese to leave but do not want to deport them Page Act of 1875 o undesirables and prostitutes Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 o No Chinese can immigrate to the US o Chinese live under Act until 1943 o Prevents Chinese from leaving and returning to the US o New Chinese cannot enter US o 6 companies become ever more powerful Chae Chan Ping vs US 1889 o Goes to US supreme court o Upholds the Chinese Exclusion Act The US has the right to pass any immigration law it so chooses o Sons on paper only o Anybody who wants to come over claim to be son of somebody living in San Francisco AMH2097 Final Study Guide o Illegal immigration still occurs Chinese to Canada Mexico then move to the US 1906 Earthquake o San Francisco goes up in flames o Fire burns down city hall of records Paper Sons Angel Island 1910 1940 o Ellis Island equivalent on West Coast o Prove paper sons are not real sons Not successful Detain immigrants on Angel Island Like a prison Naturalization Act of 1943 o 1 Outlaws Naturalization Act of 1870 o 2 Outlaw Chinese Exclusion Act Immigration after 1943 o Push Factor Communism Thanks Chinese for fighting WWII for us by allowing them to immigrate Allow ONLY 105 immigrants a year US has need for skilled workers electronics o Pull Factor Economics 50 50 half women half men Lots of families and children coming over o Refugee Status Immigrants can come in regardless of immigration law Allows tons of Chinese to enter US under immigration status Immigrants Children o model minority Better than African Americans Mexicans etc US likes them for their money and skills 3 3 million 1 of total population If you live in California usually live in ethnic enclave If Chinese live outside of ethnic enclaves lose lots of Chinese culture German American Lecture Who are they o Pennsylvania Dutch o Duetsche or Dutch AMH2097 Final Study Guide Religion o Protestant Religions America loves Protestants Amish Quaker Mennonite Moravians Germantowns o Ethnic enclaves o Located in Pennsylvania o Settled based on religion Pacifists o Against war Abolitionists o Against slavery Dirt Farmers o Done by themselves for themselves o Person who improves the land Lutheran o Other German immigrants begin to come over that were Jewish or indentured servants o Germans come over in first wave 6 million from 1820 1914 Very very different from Pennsylvania Dutch Religions o Protestant Lutheran o Jews o Catholics Not all Germans coming over are all protestant Push factors o Upper class comes over for political reasons Revolutions of 1848 conscription laws Economic reasons industrial revolution reached US yet o Potato Blight Many workers are displaced Gottfried Duden 1829 Germans come over to work because industrial revolution has not yet o Writes a book about how great America is o Makes Germans in the principalities want to immigrate His writings are very misleading Speaks about Midwest but the railroads pay him to write about this area AMH2097 Final Study Guide Helps keeps immigrants away from WASPs to buy land they must settle on it 48 ers o Very upper class o Elite of Germany philosophers o Atheists All other religions are appalled at this Mid West o Ethnic Enclaves Settle with their people Take over lots of land German Triangle Cincinnati Milwaukee St Louis Upper Middle Class o Two classes hang out together o Farm in the Midwest Farming for beer manufacturing Germans have the skill to brew beer Buy crops from Germans Brewed by Germans Everything is German all the time Bring over Piano manufacturing Everyone is making money and are happy Social Clubs o Like the institutional church they all help each other Over 200 social clubs in NYC o Both set up Parochial schools In order to fight assimilation Usually based on religion Newspapers In German Each group has their own newspaper In America start to form one German language o Teach it in parochial schools o Parochial schools and newspapers help form and unify the Germans Definition of Model Immigrant o Given to Germans because they have money WWI Propaganda o Try to woo America to the dark side o Relate Germans to the Huns like Chinese o Tell them that they are liars and like all other groups that they hate AMH2097 Final Study Guide Based on what we already know Pumped up Patriotism o When something happens to the US everyone gets super patriotic o We begin to hate everyone else Hyphenated Americanism o We stop
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