1. Referring to Joseph Keppler’s Political Cartoon, Does it seem as if the United States is welcoming immigration? Why or why not? What does the shadow behind the men greeting the immigrant represent? What do you think has changed ? Explain.
9. “ Manufacturers valued immigrants not out of the goodness of their hearts, but because they wanted the cheap labor immigrants provided. Even the Chinese…received praise from railroad Robber-Baron Leland Stanford for being diligent workers able to survive on very low wages. The result of the fairly free immigration policy, pushed by big corporations in search of cheap labor, resulted in a more ethnically diverse America .” http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/gildedage/section5.rhtml
10. “… cheap labor, ignorant labor, takes our jobs and cuts our wages.” ~ Samuel Gompers
11. “ The result of unlimited immigration is showing plainly in the rapid decline in the birth rate of native Americans… [who] will not bring children into the world to compete in the labor market with the Slovak, the Italian, the Syrian, and the Jew. The native American is too proud to mix socially with them.” ~ Madison Grant
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13. “… the new immigrants [contain] a large…number of the weak, the broken and the mentally crippled of all races drawn from the lowest [levels] of the Mediterranean basin and the Balkans, together with hordes of the wretched, submerged populations of the Polish ghettos. Our jails, insane asylums and almshouses are filled with this human flotsam...” ~ Madison Grant
