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A 6 page research paper that answers specific questions pertaining to American immigration. Questions cover a variety of topics, but mainly concern immigration policy in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century and public sentiment toward immigration restriction. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Americans, particularly other immigrant groups such as the Irish, felt threatened by the Chinese as they saw this group as being in direct competition for jobs. Irish-Americans claimed that
Chinese workers were a direct threat to their livelihood because they were willing to work for such low wages and that they took jobs that would otherwise go to an
Irish emigrant (Cose 177). As long as Chinese workers were occupied with building the railroad, which appears to have constituted work that white men did not want, things were relatively
peaceful, although altercations did occur. However, when it came to Chinese workers entering the workforce in other areas, whites saw them as an invading horde, keeping wages low and taking
all available work. 2. What arguments did they use? While it was argued that Chinese took jobs away from white workers, it was also argued that the
Chinese were a "servile people," who lived in "eternal bondage to the Six Companies who had imported them" (Cose 182). Because they lived so cheaply, "like swine in a sty"
-- whites could not complete with them economically (Cose 182). As this illustrates, while the primary reasons for barring Chinese immigration were economic, the arguments against them also relied on
racism to paint this ethnic group as being less than human and, therefore, worthy of exclusion from the US. 3. Why, according to David M. Reimers, did Americans want
to restrict immigration across the board in the late 1800s and early 1900s? In part, Reimers agrees with Cose that economic factors were involved. He mentions how the
economic depression of the 1870s provided the impetus for the formation of the Workingmans Party, whose platform included halting Chinese immigration (Reimers 185). However, Reimers emphasizes that the primary reason
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