Started with the American belief on “manifest destiny” the idea was to control the US from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific regardless of the presence of Mexico in the way which lead to the Mexican War. After the US won the battle the treaty of Guadalupe – Hidalgo (1848) was established claiming almost half of what was Mexico. The treaty also forced Mexico to take $15 million for half the country and gave former Mexican citizens the opportunity for US citizenship. By 1897, the In re Rodriguez case provided the “white” status allowing for naturalization of Mexicans.
As more Chinese started to emigrate to the US in 1850 due to the gold rush, many white Americans started to express their resentment towards Chinese immigrants. In 1854, George Hall was a white man who murdered a Chinese …show more content…
In 1913, a 13-year-old Mary Phagan was found dead at a factory managed by Jewish Leo Frank, the ani-Semite prosecution found Frank guilty even though they had no concrete evidence. Frank was sentenced to death penalty; nevertheless, Georgia’s governor reduced his sentence to life in prison, this outraged some of the citizens who started anti-Jewish riots. Leo Frank was lynched in 1915 when a mob took him from prison. Economic competition, religious hostility, and the fear of immigrants bringing “dangerous” political ideas propped congress to create Ellis Island (1891) to address the immigration “problem.” This place became the main processing point for all the immigrants coming to the US. It promised to select only the best of the immigrants and reject the worst through a process of medical examinations and interviews that aimed to learn their political ideologies. However, the island only had a rejection rate of
As more Chinese started to emigrate to the US in 1850 due to the gold rush, many white Americans started to express their resentment towards Chinese immigrants. In 1854, George Hall was a white man who murdered a Chinese …show more content…
In 1913, a 13-year-old Mary Phagan was found dead at a factory managed by Jewish Leo Frank, the ani-Semite prosecution found Frank guilty even though they had no concrete evidence. Frank was sentenced to death penalty; nevertheless, Georgia’s governor reduced his sentence to life in prison, this outraged some of the citizens who started anti-Jewish riots. Leo Frank was lynched in 1915 when a mob took him from prison. Economic competition, religious hostility, and the fear of immigrants bringing “dangerous” political ideas propped congress to create Ellis Island (1891) to address the immigration “problem.” This place became the main processing point for all the immigrants coming to the US. It promised to select only the best of the immigrants and reject the worst through a process of medical examinations and interviews that aimed to learn their political ideologies. However, the island only had a rejection rate of