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What is the effect of Immigration on the US?
Group Editorial NYC and other large cities today have grown in population. Not only from immigrants, but from farmers, moving to the cities after WWI ended. A total of about 19 million people have moved to the cities, making the US more than 50% urban. This has created a split between ideas for this decade and it has been changing generations who have different views from the people who came before them. The 20’s will be a decade to remember. There have been many immigrants that have immigrated to the United States since the 1890s. The majority of arrivals have been from Central, Eastern and Southern europe. In that time alone, some 600,000 Italians have migrated to America, and by 1920 more than 4 million have entered the United States. This includes Mexican immigrants who are poor and have barely been able to find jobs. They are living off of 5$ a day, and some of the other workers only get paid $1.50 a day. Immigrants in general are most likely to live in the central parts of Metropolitan Areas in “gateway (major international airport) cities” in six states (California, New York, Texas, Florida, New Jersey and Illinois). And that hasn’t been good because they are geographically concentrated, which means there is high unemployment in these areas. But After WW1, there has been a trend toward isolationism, or withdrawal from the international community, in America. An example of this is The KKK which is a group that was formed after they lynching
of a man by the name of Leo Frank. Leo Frank killed a girl and the Klan was mad because his time in jail was lowered, the Klan was furious because of this and they broke him out of jail and Lynched him. They hate Immigrants; African Americans, Catholics, and Jewish people. They’re terrorizing the “aliens” of America. They perform lynchings, burning of crosses, whippings, and they would kidnap people to scary and terrorize them. There are about 3-4 million members in the Ku Klux Klan. It seems to be the case that America is letting it’s new nativist trends decide its immigration policies.. This is highlighted by the prevention of specific groups of people from entering the US through strict immigration laws. 1921 is the first time there has ever been such specific restrictions on immigration to the US and the immigration quota act is the first ever act to place an annual quota on US immigration. These restrictions have had a huge effect on the number and kinds of people entering the US. The immigration quota law sends the message that America is only for white people, and it shuts the door on an opportunity to help the economy.
These raise the questions, Are these restrictions meant to produce any actual benefits for our country or are they completely unnecessary, and have only been passed due to nativist ideology? What has immigration done to the country? is America really a nation of immigrants? And should anything be done to help immigrants? Read the magazine to find out.
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Page 3- Editorial Continued page 3 on to 4Page 5- KKK Page 6- Continued page 5 to 6 on KKK Page 7- Nation Of Immigrants? Page 8- Picture of congress Page9- Growth of our city Page 10- From Farms to Cities Page 11- CITATIONS
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Immigrants Who were the immigrants coming to the United States in the 1920s and are there values good or bad for America? Some of the people that came to the united states were the mexicans and when the came to the united states they were poor they could barely find jobs. They would only get 5$ a day. And some of the other workers only got paid $1.50 a day. But it was easier for the mexican immigrants to keep attract with their families and friends. The immigrants settled in the united states because Immigrants are highly geographically concentrated. Compared to the native born they are more likely to live in the central parts of Metropolitan Areas in “gateway (major international airport) cities” in six states (California, New York, Texas, Florida, New Jersey and Illinois). For most of the country's history immigrants had arrived from the northern european lands the british isles, germans and france had also furnished the early colonial settlers The influx of 2.4 million Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe stirred up anti- semitism —prejudice against Jews. In some communities, landlords refused to rent apartments to Jewish tenants. Colleges limited the number of Jewish students they accepted. Many ads for jobs stated "Christians only." The Leo Frank case, which gave birth to the new Ku Klux Klan, also led to the founding of the anti-defamation league (ADL) in 1913. The organization's immediate goal was "to stop the defamation [false accusation] of the Jewish people."
“ Its longer-term mission was "to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike." Throughout the 1920s, the ADL battled discrimination against Jews in all areas of life. Catholics were also targets of religious prejudice. In 1928, the Democratic Party nominated New York Governor Al Smith, a Catholic, for president. Soon, rumors swept the country that if Smith were elected, the Catholic pope would run the United States. Smith spent most of the campaign trying to persuade voters that his religious beliefs did not present a threat to the nation. Some other immigrants that came to the united states are asian and italians. Italians were not the only victims of such prejudice. Asian immigrants also faced severe legal discrimination.Asians were barred from becoming citizens and, in several states, from owning land. Many states also banned marriages between whites and Asians. African Americans faced continuing discrimination as well. At the end of World War I, returning black soldiers had high hopes that their service to the country would lessen prejudice. These hopes proved illusory. Black veterans had problems finding jobs. In some places, lynching made an ugly comeback. More than 70 blacks were murdered by lynch mobs in 1919. In the summer of 1919, tensions between whites and blacks erupted into race riots. The most serious riot occurred in Chicago when whites killed a black swimmer who had strayed into the white section of a Lake Michigan beach. Some 38 people were killed and 500 injured in the riots that followed. The African American poet Claude McKay wrote of the summer of 1919:
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Some other immigrants that came to the united states are asian and italians. Italians were not the only victims of such prejudice. Asian immigrants also faced severe legal discrimination.Asians were barred from becoming citizens and, in several states, from owning land. Many states also banned marriages between whites and Asians. African Americans faced continuing discrimination as well. At the end of World War I, returning black soldiers had high hopes that their service to the country would lessen prejudice. These hopes proved illusory. Black veterans had problems finding jobs. In some places, lynching made an ugly comeback. More than 70 blacks were murdered by lynch mobs in 1919. In the summer of 1919, tensions between whites and blacks erupted into race riots. The most serious riot occurred in Chicago when whites killed a black swimmer who had strayed into the white section of a Lake Michigan beach. Some 38 people were killed and 500 injured in the riots that followed. The African American poet Claude McKay wrote of the summer of 1919:
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Ku Klux Klan What makes fear drive into violence? How has the fear of new immigrants inspired the rise of the power of the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan was known for terrorizing; immigrants, African Americans, Jews, and Catholics. The Klan was made because Americans were fearing the Immigrants, and the other races that were living in America, so the Ku Klux Klan rose up again and made the clan “active” Lots of Immigrants were coming to America through the 1920’s looking for jobs and family. Most times the people that came were just looking to start a new life, but other times there were criminals that were on these boats that were being brought to America and causing trouble, lots of fights broke out in big cities because of gang wars. These immigrants took “advantage” of hospitality, then they usually ended up sending the spoils that they eared back to where they came back from to families or other people. Lots of religions were being spread and most KKK members didn’t like this, people from China and India were bowing down to “Wood and Stone” (Altars made of wood and stone)and the KKK were furious about this. The KKK didn’t like that immigrants were bringing over different types of religions to American, and they wanted to take a stance about this.
America didn’t like change back in this time. They opposed “alien” changes in race, loyalty, and religion. They also didn’t like that immigrants were using America as a tool of advantage in the Old World. KKK was against any attempt to use the Privileges and opportunities that “aliens” hold only through America’s generosity, as an effort to change the civilization into what was comfortable to them. Most immigrants that were bring brought to America weren’t getting payed much, they had a hard time trying to support their families. Other times many people didn’t wanna hire immigrants of and kind, so for these people it was extremely hard to find a job. They admitted to this that they didn’t like change and even worse was that they were proud of it. How the Ku Klux Klan started was when the clan called themselves “Knights of Mary Phagan” this started because a man by the name of Leo Frank killed a young girl by the name of Mary Phagan. In this case, the jury gave very little time to Leo Frank in jail, the Klan was furious about this. They ended up breaking Leo Frank out of jail and then ended up lynching him, after this they started calling themselves the Ku Klux Klan.
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Ku Klux Klan pt.2 Klan violence was also very common in many ways. Most members snuck out at night and some of the things that they would do are; whippings, they kidnapped people, did cross burnings in the woods, and they also murdered lots of people in this time. People were afraid of them and were scared for their life, these were some of the ways that they terrorized immigrated or other groups that they didn’t like. Most of the time when they were doing this it was in secret and no one knew about it. They held marches in the streets of Washington and there were about 3-4 million members at this time. After awhile the members of the KKK started to go down and people were leaving as fast as they joined, by the end of this there were about only 30k members left in the Klan.They stated that they were the Defenders of American Values.
The KKK was a big threat in the 1920’s to Immigrants, African Americans, jews, and catholic people. Hated change and wanted to “protect” American Values. The KKK rose up because they wanted to have a “White” American and with all of the immigrants that were coming over sea to live in America and make money, they couldn't do this. They hated that different types of “aliens” were bringing over different religious, They opposed Christians and they dislike Jewish people, they also didn’t like African Americans. All of these reasons were why the “new” KKK was formed.
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Nation Of Immigrants? By Gautam Sharda Period 5 After WW1, there has been a trend toward isolationism, or withdrawal from the international community, in America. This is highlighted by an increase in nativism and the prevention of specific groups of people from entering the US through strict immigration laws. One such law is the new immigration quota law of 1921. The new quota has many specific restrictions, a huge effect on the number and kinds of people entering the country, and is a bad decision due to its racist nature and the lost opportunity of helping the economy. 1921 is the first time there has ever been such specific restrictions on immigration to the US and the immigration quota act is the first ever act to place an annual quota on US immigration. One of the restrictions is the 3% quota. This quota mandates that only people from countries who had other people from their country already in the US by 1910 are allowed to enter, and only 3% of the number of people from a country already in the US at 1910 are allowed to enter each year. These restrictions have had a huge effect on the number and kinds of people entering the US Only 3% of US residents at 1910 meant that basically only few white European people are able to enter. The problem is that it is very difficult to actually calculate how many people from a certain country were already in the US by 1910 due to things like, mixed European heritage, or questions like, how much English DNA does a person need to qualify as an Englishman?
Regardless of these issues, the law has resulted in a drastic decrease in total immigration to the US. Specifically there has been a 50% decrease in immigration following the passage of the law. The immigration quota law sends the message that America is only for white people, and it shuts the door on an opportunity to help the economy. As a result of the 3% quota, only “European blood/heritage” is allowed to enter. Obviously, this is racist, because all non whites are 100% excluded, but it also prevents potential entrepreneurs and all kinds of laborers, who can benefit our country economically, from entering altogether. For these reasons I think the immigration quota law is bad because it is not meant to produce any actual benefits for our country which means the strict quotas are completely unnecessary, and have only been passed due to a nativist ideology. It will be interesting to see whether the arguments used to justify the quota law, such as “they won’t assimilate”, “America is for Americans”, and “The idea of the melting pot is false”, by Eugenics proponents such as Madison Grant, will still be used to argue why immigration is bad, or why only white European immigrants are good, in the American political sphere of the next century. Although, overall there have always been constant changes in the American demographic since the founding of the nation and that will probably continue to be the case.
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THE GROWTH OF OUR CITY Who is moving to the cities? What impact is this having? WWll has just ended and a new wave of soldiers have come to the cities after the large wave of immigrants from all around the world. Soldiers and farmers are starting to march into the cities as fast as girl’s skirt got short. With rural families moving to the cities, there has become different views and a clash between generations of this new bold and crazy century. FROM FARMS TO CITIES Our soldiers returning from war have decided to move to the city. The U.S has quickly become more than 50% urban. So far in this great generation of the 20’s, more than 19 million people have moved from farms to cities. Some reasons for this are crop prices are decreasing and farms are failing in rural areas. DIFFERENT VIEWS Modernists in the cities see traditionalists as “behind the times,” and traditionalist see modernists as “scandalous.” Traditionalists think they are defending all that is good in the U.S. They look to their faith in the Bible to support in their struggle against modernists.
Fundamentalism is an idea that religious texts and beliefs should be taken seriously and people must have appropriate behavior. GENERATIONS CLASH Courtship is very different these days than they were in the past. Back then, men would have to meet with the parents of the daughter before asking her out. These days, cars make it a lot easier to leave the eagle eyes of parents on dates between young couples. Young couples do new things like; clubs, sports, music, dances, dating, movies, and crazy fads. “The older generation had certainly pretty well ruined this world before passing it onto us,” says a young teen. However, the older generation considers young people’s behavior reckless and immoral. They have tried to restore mortality, censorship and more conservative behavior and they aren’t afraid to express lound disapproval. Our generation is a new time for new citizens in the cities, different views from all citizens and a large clash between generations. Other than that the 20’s seems to have a lot of potential in making the U.S a bigger and better country than it was before.
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DRAWN BY SAMANTHA CROCO
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Feinstein, Stephen. The 1920s. New York, Enslow Publishing, 2016. ---. The 1920s. New York, Enslow Publishing, 2016. Hanson, Erica. The 1920s. San Diego, Lucent Books, 1999. Hart, Diane, and Bert Bower. History Alive!: Pursuing
Works Cited (Croco) American Ideals. Student edition. ed., Rancho Hart, Diane, and Bert Bower. History Alive!: Cordova, Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2013. Pursuing American Ideals. Student edition. U.S.A. 1920s. Danbury, Grolier, 2005. ed., Rancho Cordova, Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2013. Works Cited
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Hart, Diane, and Bert Bower. History Alive!: Pursuing American Ideals. Student edition. ed., Rancho Cordova, Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2013. Streissguth, Thomas. The Roaring Twenties: An Eyewitness History. New York, Facts on File, 2001. Works Cited (Rubio) Hart, Diane, and Bert Bower. History Alive!: Pursuing American Ideals. Student edition. ed., Rancho Cordova, Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2013. U.S.A. 1920s. Danbury, Grolier, 2005.
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