The integration of immigrants into a society is always a convoluted issue for everyone involved. The era extending from 1875 to 1930 was no exception for the United States. As word disseminated across the globe about an easier life in the United States, 25 million people came far and wide from all walks of life in order to pursue the opportunity of happiness they heard about. Joseph Keppler’s political cartoon titled “Welcome to All”, illustrates some of the first immigrants being accepted with open arms into the nation, causing a massive cultural renovation for many major cities. Although this was a transformation for the United States, some viewed this transformation as a malice on American society, as nativists, or, people native to the
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This idea is seen in the political cartoon by Joseph Keppler titled, “Looking Backward”. As tensions arose, and more and more people became uneasy about the flow of these immigrants into the country, the American public heavily discriminated the Irish because of their Catholicism, while the United States government was forced to respond to the Chinese accordingly, an example being the Chinese Expulsion Act of 1888, which banned the Chinese from immigrating into the United States, but would fail in their attempt to seriously hamper what they believed to be an Irish immigration …show more content…
Although the Irish had avoided poverty in their homeland, they had walked into a brand new set of problems to face fresh off their boats. The United States is predominantly made up of Protestants, in an era of American history where people could be discriminated against for almost anything that was divergent of the norm. Because of this, over time, immigrants from Ireland began to have less of a prosperous life once arriving to the United States due to the discrimination of religion they faced, as well as employers beginning to see them as less suitable candidates to American citizens because of their lack of skills and education. The Irish immigrants then had to accept any job they could, no matter how little they were remunerated, and what dangers that particular job imposed upon them, such as, workers in coal mine developing black lung disease from the heavy amount of exposure to the coal they would inhale on a daily basis. To some in government, the Irish Catholics seemed like an unstoppable force bent on threatening American livelihood, which is why the “American Party” was formed, whose policies would threaten Irish immigration. The American Party would try their hardest to pass laws through Congress which would drastically slow the speed it took to immigrate to the United States, and to finally naturalize, for Irish Catholics. However, this government
This idea is seen in the political cartoon by Joseph Keppler titled, “Looking Backward”. As tensions arose, and more and more people became uneasy about the flow of these immigrants into the country, the American public heavily discriminated the Irish because of their Catholicism, while the United States government was forced to respond to the Chinese accordingly, an example being the Chinese Expulsion Act of 1888, which banned the Chinese from immigrating into the United States, but would fail in their attempt to seriously hamper what they believed to be an Irish immigration …show more content…
Although the Irish had avoided poverty in their homeland, they had walked into a brand new set of problems to face fresh off their boats. The United States is predominantly made up of Protestants, in an era of American history where people could be discriminated against for almost anything that was divergent of the norm. Because of this, over time, immigrants from Ireland began to have less of a prosperous life once arriving to the United States due to the discrimination of religion they faced, as well as employers beginning to see them as less suitable candidates to American citizens because of their lack of skills and education. The Irish immigrants then had to accept any job they could, no matter how little they were remunerated, and what dangers that particular job imposed upon them, such as, workers in coal mine developing black lung disease from the heavy amount of exposure to the coal they would inhale on a daily basis. To some in government, the Irish Catholics seemed like an unstoppable force bent on threatening American livelihood, which is why the “American Party” was formed, whose policies would threaten Irish immigration. The American Party would try their hardest to pass laws through Congress which would drastically slow the speed it took to immigrate to the United States, and to finally naturalize, for Irish Catholics. However, this government