Thursday, June 8, 2017

20th Century
As you all remember my theme for this blog is immigration, this is my last blog and my teacher has asked us too write about the 20th century. So I'm going to talk about immigration in the 20th century, many immigrants suffered in this period of time because of the Immigration Act and Asiatic Barred Zone Act. Many Europeans came to the United States for a better future one of them were the Italians. Italian immigrants increased in the 20 century according to the book "Immigrating to the USA," more than 2 million Italians immigrated between 1900 and 1930. Another thing this article talks about is also Immigration Act of 1924, it placed restrictions on immigrants from other countries, specifically war-torn Europe and Asia. The passing of the Immigration Act directly affected immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe.The Asiatic Barred Zone Act affected Indian Americans they lived under new restrictions, as a court case in 1922, the United States vs. Bhagat Singh Thind, took away existing Indian Americans of their citizenship. Causing the Indian population quickly to decrease in America.


http://peopleof.oureverydaylife.com/immigrants-1920s-7720.html 

Friday, April 21, 2017

A Divided Nation
As you remember my theme for this blog is immigration, I'm going to be talking about immigration during the Civil War. The article I chose is about the Know-Nothing Party, which opposed immigrants that came from Europe during the 1850s. In the article it talked about how the people from England, Germany, Scandinavia, Ireland and Italy where coming to the United State. Most of them were Roman Catholic so they would listen more to the pope than the president. Many activist worried that the country was changing so the Democratic Party had seamlessly folded the immigrants into existing political operations. When asked what these activist were up to they would try to keep a low profile by saying "I know nothing" they eventually were know as the "Know Nothing Party", this party grew within a year. 

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/18/immigration_and_the_rise__fall_of_the_know-nothing_party_125649.html 

Friday, January 27, 2017

Founding

As you remember my theme is immigration, I'm going to talk about immigration during the founding. I found the following article written by Michelle Malkin. It talks about what are founding fathers think of immigration. She talks about how precedent Obama agrees with immigration and how the founding father disagreed. Because of indiscriminate mass immigration and how it would affect votes. George Washington thought that immigrants should be more like Americans and they should be assimilated in to american culture. I disagree with this because I think that if you come from a different country you should be allowed to practice it, not because your're in this country you should be "more american".