Immigrants are not the ones who are endangering the American civilization, but by the Americans themselves who believe in Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism was a common belief held by people during 1880-1925 that lead to problems with economic discrimination, immigration, and racism.
Social Darwinism caused most Americans to believe they are superior, which made them attack other races by saving they will disrupt Americans civilization just because of the country they are from and the events that are happening their. For example, “The Chinese, if permitted freely to enter this country, would create race antagonisms which would ultimately result in great public disturbance.” (Document1) Which shows how they believe that if one is not …show more content…
This caused a lot of the new immigrants to come to America and work for long hours while earning low wages. Those low wages caused for a lot of the immigrants to be on the streets or living in tenements, in which were full of horrible things; “Because of the massive overcrowding, disease was widespread. Cholera and yellow-fever epidemics swept through the slums on a regular basis. Tuberculosis was a huge killer. Infants suffered the most. Almost 25% of babies born in late-19th century cities died before reaching the age of one.” ( “The Underside of Urban Life” www.ushistory.org ) Moreover, the government is not doing much about it. Sewage isn’t properly placed, there was barely and trash removal, water purification, etc. The government mostly payed attention to the wealthy which isn’t the problem because two-thirds of the population in America lived in tenements (www.history.com/topics/tenements). This shows how if the wealthy were at least to increase the wages a little bit, it would cause less riots and less people to be on the streets and turn into criminals. At the end, the riots happened so these tragedies in the tenements could stop happening. Although the foolish idea of ‘Social Darwinism’ and discriminating the poor prevented them by …show more content…
It doesn’t make sense because the “American race” is made up by people with ancestors from a lot of different countries, not America, who came here to make a better life for themselves and/or families, just like these immigrants are
Social Darwinism caused most Americans to believe they are superior, which made them attack other races by saving they will disrupt Americans civilization just because of the country they are from and the events that are happening their. For example, “The Chinese, if permitted freely to enter this country, would create race antagonisms which would ultimately result in great public disturbance.” (Document1) Which shows how they believe that if one is not …show more content…
This caused a lot of the new immigrants to come to America and work for long hours while earning low wages. Those low wages caused for a lot of the immigrants to be on the streets or living in tenements, in which were full of horrible things; “Because of the massive overcrowding, disease was widespread. Cholera and yellow-fever epidemics swept through the slums on a regular basis. Tuberculosis was a huge killer. Infants suffered the most. Almost 25% of babies born in late-19th century cities died before reaching the age of one.” ( “The Underside of Urban Life” www.ushistory.org ) Moreover, the government is not doing much about it. Sewage isn’t properly placed, there was barely and trash removal, water purification, etc. The government mostly payed attention to the wealthy which isn’t the problem because two-thirds of the population in America lived in tenements (www.history.com/topics/tenements). This shows how if the wealthy were at least to increase the wages a little bit, it would cause less riots and less people to be on the streets and turn into criminals. At the end, the riots happened so these tragedies in the tenements could stop happening. Although the foolish idea of ‘Social Darwinism’ and discriminating the poor prevented them by …show more content…
It doesn’t make sense because the “American race” is made up by people with ancestors from a lot of different countries, not America, who came here to make a better life for themselves and/or families, just like these immigrants are