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In the midst of the 19th century, after the Reconstruction, rapid industrialization paved way to an influx of immigrants searching for job opportunities and freedom in the United States. From 1880 to 1925 these immigrants kept coming into the United States causing issues between them and the Americans, and with the government. Americans felt threatened and resented these New Immigrants for being different in culture and physical aspects, and for "stealing" their job opportunities, which in the end caused tensions between both groups. These social and economic tensions between the Americans as the number of immigrants increased, and it spread over all sectors of society. At first, there was little federal government intervention, but as the number of immigrants increased rapidly and tensions grew so did government intervention.
During the middle of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, immigrants came to America looking for jobs to better their situations. These immigrants were willing to work at a lower wage and work in worse conditions than the Americans therefore there was a strong competition for industrial jobs. The Populist Party formed in 1892 denounced this and fought for the protection of American labor. It condemned the ineffective immigration regulations and these immigrants. (Doc C) Labor unions rose at this point to defend their job opportunities. Not only were these immigrants beginning to take over the Americans' jobs, but also the immigrants' influence was so that they began to fill government positions. Irish men in 1908 were welcomed as Mayor, and as other important part of the state government. (Doc F) Some Americans resented that the New Immigrants were taking part of the government away from them; the white Native Americans resented the fact that the government was run by foreigners. These tensions brought back the nativist ideal among Americans who disliked the strong presence of these New Immigrants. Although many of these immigrants came to the United States to stay, some were Birds of Passage: single men who came, got wealth, and would return to their home. It wasn't permanent work and unemployment rates would be reduced. (Doc B) Nativists were more accepting to this group of people because they didn't go to the United States to stay; this was a more positive view of immigrant labor. On the other hand, they did not contribute to the economy because they left with the wealth they made and came back for more. Similar tensions like the ones between whites and immigrants also arose between African-Americans and immigrants.
With their newly found freedom, blacks wanted to prosper and get jobs to support themselves and their families. Immigrants also posed competition to the blacks living in the South; immigrants lowered the opportunities for blacks to thrive in society. Brooker T. Washington said that blacks needed practical jobs at that moment to get ahead and achieve economic equality. He was against immigration because he believed that immigrants weren't going to be as loyal or as hard working as blacks were, and he wanted whites to see this. He didn't see the need for immigration when there were millions of blacks ready to work. (Doc D) This showed the racism that was still present in the United States even though the blacks were seen as free citizens. Another example of racism was Madison Grant's ____ who in this speech advocated the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race in every aspect. (Doc G) He was spreading anti-black and anti-immigrant feelings. These racist feelings restricted the job opportunities for these poor blacks and immigrants. These social and economic tensions were not limited to whites and the immigrants, but there were also tensions between blacks and immigrants, and whites and blacks. As these tensions increased, the government acted.
Federal government had an open-door policy at the beginning of the 1880's. They promoted immigration because Americans needed more people to populate the West and needed more people to work due to the rapid industrialization. (Doc A) As these social, political, and economic tensions began to increase between the immigrants and Americans the federal government put restrictions on immigration. In addition to these tensions, the United States was overpopulated and wasn't in need of more immigrants. The government in 1882 passed the Chinese Exclusion Act prohibiting Chinese immigrants. The Gentleman's Agreement was also passed-- Japan and the United States got together and to regulate Japanese immigration to the United States. (Doc E) The government began to issue literacy tests, IQ tests, and background checks to test who should go to the United States and who should return to their homeland. By the 1920's government was restricting almost all immigration, only letting in 3% of the immigrants. (Doc H) It was getting out of control and restricting it was the only way to control immigration.
Americans, whether black, white or Old Immigrants, were feeling threatened by the coming of the New Immigrants as this group took their jobs and began to fill government positions. While at first welcoming immigrants, the government saw itself forced to restrict immigration as it was getting slowly out of control.