The Chinese 03 18 2014 Post Exclusion Act Immigration Frozen Chinese Chinatown Beginnings of Chinese leaving Chinatown Go to other places with jobs 1906 Earthquake California San Francisco Major fire Burned down government buildings Birth certificates destroyed can t tell where people were born Chinese community in China America Paper Sons Falsify papers People already in America Chinese government falsify documents to say they were born in the US No record of who was born in the US Overstepping Chinese Exclusion Act and Naturalization Act Women come over as well First Chinese Female Immigration Chinese start to have families Goal Still want to go back to China Illegal immigration but can t be proven Angel Island 1910 1940 Processing center for everyone coming over on the west coast Detain people here Chinese Exclusion Act excludes Chinese coming in legally doesn t stop all immigration 1943 Mexico and Canada can walk right across border Naturalization Act of 1943 1943 end Exclusion Act Gift to China for being in WWII 1 Ends Exclusion Act 2 End Naturalization Act of 1870 o Open Chinese immigration and allow them citizenship 3 105 immigrants year in China o Make people come in certain ways o First come first serve CHANGE immigration after 1943 Women Refugee status 1949 communism in China Peoples Republic of China o Refugee Status escaping something in their country that is horrible Grants group to immigrate in as many as they want regardless of immigration law People trying to escape communism enemy of our enemy Mostly women 1 Equality of sexes Chinatown 2 Chinatowns all over the country Not sojourners return migrants o Assimilation o Happy with Chinese American population o Technology technology to make things cheap and affordable Chinese Americans 1980s Model Minority Stereotypes o 1 Incredibly smart o 2 Money o 3 Unemotional In media Model minority we give this name to group of people we like All minorities should follow what they do 3 3 million 1 of US total population The Germans Where Final Begins Paper Sons No such thing as a German Immigration from Germany 03 18 2014 German Americans The Model Immigrant Not homogeneous No such thing as German Germans An Introduction o Largest immigration to the US continuous o No such thing as Germany or a German City states different German spoken controlled by royalty Unification ends in 1871 o Immigration in ALL waves o Diverse group don t have anything in common US Views of Germans Stereotypes o Myth of the Pennsylvania Dutch mislabeled first group settled in Pennsylvania o White Beautiful communities bring over hamburgers hot dogs beer pretzels Santa Clause apple pie o Protestant o Skilled Hard Workers bring white fence apple pie beer hamburgers o True for all No Nineteenth Century Immigration The First Wave o Who came Largest group 6 million from 1820 1914 Diverse group Religions Catholic Lutheran Protestant and Jewish Jewish considered different group Classes Money Upper middle lower most have money Coming in families and singles male Mostly families o What made them leave Political Revolutions of 1848 Upper class Lot of wars between the city states conscription laws forced men to be drafted Unification of Germany one government under one king Upper class somehow linked to royalty Economic Middle Class Industrial Revolution 1880 30 years before in Germany 2 major craftsmen o piano making and beer taxes affect everyone o middle class Potato Blight Lower class Doesn t cause famine lower class just don t have jobs anymore Taxes effect everyone Religion Effects everyone Jews and Catholics starting to suffer anti Semitism anti Jewish Nineteenth Century Immigration Why did they come to the US o Land need money to buy land o 2 3 of Germans do have money We want cheap labor o Best recruiter for Germans a German himself Gottfried Duden 1829 huge recruiter for Germans to go to the US Journal of why one would want to move to the United States pamphlet Wanted to tell Germans how awesome America was Talks about transcontinental railroad Acres of land on both sides of the railroad very cheap so people can move there and the train can stop there Not doing this because he s paid Actually talks about how fantastic the land is Midwest Just like the hills of Germany Can grow the same crops there and the land is good WASPs aren t there o Jobs Lots of jobs even if you don t have money Germans are always chosen first for any jobs they apply for mainly because of their stereotypes Germans will also be promoted quicker than anybody else making more money and one of the few groups that when the lower class comes over they might even be able to move to the Midwest Make enough money when they come to America to be able to do what they came here to do land Location o Settled based on religion class Ethnic enclaves aren t formed by Germans but types of Germans Class No money stay by the boats Religion If you have money you re going to move to the Midwest Divide based on religion Also by where they come from Upper Middle Class o Have the ability to get on that train and buy the land o Move primarily to the Midwest o Mid West Ohio Ethnic Enclaves German Triangle Largest ethnic enclave in the United States Cincinnati Milwaukee St Louis Lower Class o Lower east side NYC o Boston Largest ethnic enclave in NYC Germans largest immigrant group Southie Different experience than upper class Settle near the Irish 19th Century German American Life Upper Middle no assimilation o Mainly to buy land o Upper Class Farming main job Gentlemen Upper class plantation people are hired to work for Get other Germans to work for them Other Germans will be recruited by other German Americans to move gentleman out to the Midwest Work for an amount of time not enslaved to these people o Middle Class Small farms Most aren t farmers Open up skilled professions doctors lawyers skilled craftsmen Bring over all sorts of skills like beer and pianos Beer and Pianos Beer There was beer in the US before Germans but it was watered down fermented apple juice We didn t have beer manufacturing until Germans came over Need a beer master person who creates the taste of the beer chemist artist puts ingredients together and makes beer taste the way it does o Apprenticeship Germans have created over thousands of years Immigrate to America Need people to grow crops o Upper Middle Class to grow crops Need manufacturers Need money manufacturers beer masters Nothing is done with Americans help 100 German
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