Industrialization and Immigration

4 Pieces of Evidence Overall, is this

Document What Message is Why Are Immigrants that Support Your Document Pro or
Being Conveyed? Good/Bad? Ideas Anti-Immigrant?

Anti-Catholic Cartoon:
“American River
Ganges”

Boycott Flyer:
“America vs. Asia”

Chinese Contract

“The Great Fear of the

Period”

Diary of Charles Bates

Chinese Exclusion Act

“Pacific Chivalry”
 Diary of Charles Bates, November, 1874

“The Chinese immigration to this state [California] is one of the most crying
evils, next to the corrupt system of government administration which afflicts
the welfare of this country.

Yes, the introduction of the yellow faced heathen is destined at no far distant
day to be one of the greatest curses that will befall California, for they bring
with them a train of evils over which we have no control. All the deep
seated and malignant diseases peculiar and inherent to a race of beings form
and reared in the midst of filth, and partaking of a diet that would soon prove
fatal to a dog, are imported with them, and scattered throughout the length
and breadth of our land. For a Chinaman will be a Chinaman no matter how
much he is whitewashed as the darkie says. This is the way that the
smallpox, leprosy, elephantiasis and many other kindred diseases not
peculiar to our people are being gradually but surely transplanted to our
shores by this race

What a gloomy prospect also is presented in the future for the growing
generation of this [sic] white boys. The very fact of the existence of that
brutish element the “hoodloom” especially here in San Francisco is mainly
due to the crowding out from the many trades formerly filled by them as
apprentices by the Chinese and thereby rendering them a public nuisance,
instead of useful thriving citizens.”
 Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

An Act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese.

Whereas in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of
Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities
within the territory thereof: Therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States

of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the expiration of ninety
days next after the passage of this act, and until the expiration of ten years next
after the passage of this act, the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States
be, and the same is hereby, suspended; and during such suspension it shall not
be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or having so come after the expiration
of said ninety days to remain within the United States.
SEC. 2. That the master of any vessel who shall knowingly bring within the
United States on such vessel, and land or permit to be landed, any Chinese
laborer, from any foreign port or place, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five
hundred dollars for each and every such Chinese laborer so brought, and maybe
also imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year.
SEC. 3. That the two foregoing sections shall not apply to Chinese laborers who
were in the United States on the seventeenth day of November, eighteen
hundred and eighty, or who shall have come into the same before the expiration
of ninety days next after the passage of this act, and who shall produce to such
master before going on board such vessel, and shall produce to the collector of
the port in the United States at which such vessel shall arrive, the evidence
hereinafter in this act required of his being one of the laborers in this section
mentioned; nor shall the two foregoing sections apply to the case of any master
whose vessel, being bound to a port not within the United States, shall come
within the jurisdiction of the United States by reason of being in distress or in
stress of weather, or touching at any port of the United States on its voyage to
any foreign port or place: Provided, That all Chinese laborers brought on such
vessel shall depart with the vessel on leaving port.
…

SEC.7. That any person who shall knowingly and falsely alter or substitute any
name for the name written in such certificate or forge any such certificate, or
knowingly utter any forged or fraudulent certificate, or falsely personate any
person named in any such certificate, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor;
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand
dollars, and imprisoned in a penitentiary for a term of not more than five years.
 Immigration Cartoon
As you have seen, the issue of immigration to the
United States was a hot topic. However, immigration is
not a topic that has gone away; the issue of
immigration (both legal and illegal) is still being debated
in the United States today.

You will be taking over the role of a political cartoonist for the Baltimore Sun. The
immigration debate is front and center in the minds of your readers right now, and so
you decide to draw a cartoon illustrating your point of view. Here are the steps you
need to follow:

1. Read the article provided.

2. Determine whether you agree or disagree with the following question: Should
the United States allow more legal immigration?
3. Draw a political cartoon that shows your point of view. You have free reign
to draw it as you choose.

a. For example, if you are pro-immigration, you might draw a cartoon

showing how great life is for immigrants when they arrive. Or you
might show anti-immigrant individuals as racist or unfeeling (remember…
you’re trying to prove a point!)

b. If you are anti-immigrant, you might want to draw a cartoon of

immigrants taking American jobs. Or, you may want to try and show
your audience the problems that can arise from too many immigrants,
such as language issues.

4. The cartoon may be done in pencil or ink, and it does not have to be
colored. You may draw it right on the back. It should include:

a. At least 3 symbols

b. A clear message (either for- or against immigration)

c. Use the majority of the space

d. Demonstrates that the student read and understood the article that was
provided

It will be worth 10 points, and is due ____________________