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US Immigration

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Contents

• US Immigration and Its Effects
• European Immigration
  • General
  • British
  • German
  • Irish
  • Italian
  • Jewish
  • Other
• Asian Immigration
• Latin American Immigration
• Ellis Island and New York
• Opposition to Immigration

• WEB Making of America [At Michigan]
  5000 imprints from 1850-75 on line, but as image files rather than text.
• The Sex Ratio Males per 100 Females, United States, 1790-1990, animation [At WWU]
• Image: Bar Chart: US Immigration 1820-1970, [At this Site]
• Image: Graph: US Immigration 1900-1990, [At this Site]

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European Immigration

• General
  • WEB White Trash: The Construction of An American Scapegoat [At Virginia]
  • A Rough Journey to America, 1850, [At Internet Archive, from Letters Magazine]
  • Immigrant Wealth, 1883, [At Internet Archive, from Letters Magazine]
    Letter from an Englishman after moving to South America, 1883. Not a US immigrant, but these "letters home" were a major creator of emigration pressures.
• British
  • Scottish Immigration to the American Colonies, 1772   [At this Site]
• German
  • Convention for the Mutual Abolition of the Droit d'Aubaine and Taxes on Emigration Between the United States of America and his Royal Highness the Duke of Nassau; May 27, 1846.[At Yale]
    One of a series of such documents at the Avalon Project's German-American Diplomacy, 1785-1847. [At Yale]
• Irish
  • WEB Interpreting The Irish Famine, 1846-1850 [At Internet Archive, from Virginia]
    A large collection of online original texts from Ireland, England, and America on the Irish Famine. Includes a great deal on emigration to America.
  • WEB Views of the Famine in Ireland [At Vassar]
  • WEB The Mary Anne Sadlier Archive [At Virginia]
    Mary Anne Sadlier (1820-1903), an Irish-American immigrant, wrote sixty volumes of work -- from domestic novels to historical romances to children's catechisms.
  • WEB Irish Passenger Lists [At Internet Archive, from geneology.org]
• Italian
• Jewish
  • Mark Twain: Concerning The Jews, Harper's Magazine, March, 1898  [At this Site]
    Twain discusses Anti-Semitism
• Other

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Asian Immigration

• WEB Chinatown [At PBS]
• Mark Twain [pseud of Samuel Clemens](1835-1910): The Gentle, Inoffensive Chinese, 1871, from Roughing It, Volume II, Chapter XIII. [At Schaffer Drug Library]
• San Francisco Chinatown Opium Den – 1870's [Image][At Drug Library]
• Chinese Miners in the Gold Fields - 1860 [Image][At Drug Library]
• Chinatown Declared a Nuisance! [At Drug Library]
  This is the full text of a sixteen-page pamphlet, "Chinatown Declared a Nuisance!"; distributed by the Workingmen's Committee of California, it called for the abatement of Chinatown as a health menace.
• California: Anti-Coolie Act, 1862 [At Drug Library]
  "An Act to protect free White labor against competition with Chinese collie labor, and to discourse the immigration of the Chinese into the state of California, April 26, 1862"
• Albert S. Evans: A Cruise on the Barbary Coast, Chapter 12 of A la California. Sketch of Life in the Golden State, c, 1871.
• Allen S. Williams: The Demon of the Orient,  1883 [At Drug Library]
• John W. Foster: The Chinese Boycott, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1906 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  Criticizes America's discrimination against Chinese immigrants in America as racist. This behavior incited a Chinese boycott of American trade.

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Latin American Immigration

• WEB Hispano America USA [At Neta.com]

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Ellis Island and New York

• WEB New York, NY, Ellis Island -- Immigration: 1900-1920 [At UC-Riverside]
  Photographic presentation.
• Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus, 1883 [At Virginia]
  The poem on the Statute of Liberty.
• Jacob Riis (1849-1914): How the Other Half Lives; Studies Among the Tenements of New York, 1890 [At Yale]

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Opposition to Immigration

• Francis A. Walker: Restriction of Immigration, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1896 [At Fairfield]
  Warnings about "vast inpourings of southern European immigrants"
• Robert DeCourcey Ward: Immigration and the South, The Atlantic Monthly, November1905 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  Against the North's "unloading of second-rate immigrants by sending them South."
• William Z. Ripley: Races in the United States, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1908 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  The "problem" of Mediterranean, Slavic, and Oriental races upon the character of the nation.
• Don D. Lescohier: Immigration and the Labor Supply, The Atlantic Monthly,  November 1905 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  Immigrants would undermine the improved labor standards that American workers were struggling to establish.
• Randolph S. Bourne, Transnational America, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1916, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  On the failure of the "Melting Pot".