HIST 2112 1st EditionLecture 9 Outline of Previous LectureI. Large CompaniesII. Laissez-Faire DefenseIII. MachinesIV. The Populist Party PlatformOutline of Current Lecture I. The “Great American Melting PotII. Four Immigration “waves”III. City LifeIV. Living ConditionsV. Fears of immigrants among native-born AmericansVI. Immigrants and Urban ReformCurrent LectureI. The “Great American Melting Pot Everyone wanted to move to the United States and live the American dreamII. Four Immigration “waves” Due to the conditions in other countries as well as people thinking America was the dream and the perfect place to become wealthy there were four immigration waves. o 1600-1820 British and Africanso 1820-1856 Northwestern Europeans and Irisho 1880-1920 Southeastern Europeans, Irish, Chineseo 1980-present Latin Americans, AsiansIII. City Life Between 1850-1900 the number of people living in the cities doubled. Significant percentages of the people in those cities are foreign born or are first generation. Cultural Support – If you are polish than you would go to pole town in Detroit. Immigrants who went to the big cities would create support networks and they would try to recreate their society/country. 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. Employment – Someone who was there before you and is from your native country than they would help get you a job. That is why it was important to live in those ethnic neighborhoods. Prejudice from Native-Born Americans – The other neighborhoods usually didn’twant those natives to move into their neighborhood, the people wanted to keepthe natives separate. IV. Living Conditions Immigration and Urban Poverty – bad stuff, crowding, poverty, dirt and disease. Ifyou were so poor to live in an apartment than you could pay a nickel a night to have a board on top of two barrels with a dirty mattress. An average tenant had 4beds in their but usually there would be about 18 people living in there. However you were with your family Political Machines- helped to take care of a rising neighborhood. People running in Politics would promise things but the politician would make money off of those things. They would offer to get people jobs but then they would have to vote for the politician and maybe even eliminate the competition. The politician would make money off the people and in return he would do some things for the people. V. Fears of immigrants among native-born Americans Many of the immigrants were Catholic or Jewish. The Catholics and the Jews don’t like each other and a lot of people mocked the Jews. Their threat to native born jobs – The born natives are afraid that the natives from other countries will take their jobs because they will work for less. o Out west the people were afraid of the Chinese because they had a strange religion as well as they worked for literally nothing. o Chinese are excluded with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 Their “radicalism” and Marxist Socialist Politicso Some people want to help the nativesVI. Immigrants and Urban Reform Jacob Riis and How the Other Half Liveso He saw the conditions and how society treated the natives and he was appalled. He would take pictures to expose the ugliness of the
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