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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
US Immigration
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US Immigration and Its
Effects
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European Immigration
- General
- British
- Scottish Immigration to the American Colonies, 1772
[At this Site]
- 2ND Mormon Migration from Lancashire [At Liverpool Museums] [Internet Archive version here]
From 1830, Mormon missionaries worked from of the Church at Preston and throughout the Ribble Valley in Lancashire, By 1850, 42,316 people had been baptised and another 52,192 had been baptised by 1870.
From 1840 the majority of these early converts were encouraged by the Church leaders to emigrate from Britain to North America.
- German
- Irish
- WEB Interpreting The Irish
Famine, 1846-1850 [Was At Virginia, now Internet]
A large collection of online original texts from Ireland, England, and America on the
Irish Famine. Includes a great deal on emigration to America.
- WEB Views of the Famine in Ireland [At
Wordpress] [Internet Archive version here]
Contemporary newspaper articles and illustrations from the Great Hunger in Ireland, 1845-52
- WEB The Mary Anne Sadlier Archive [Was At Virginia, now Internet Archive]
Mary Anne Sadlier (1820-1903), an Irish-American immigrant, wrote sixty volumes of work --
from domestic novels to historical romances to children's catechisms.
- WEB Irish Passenger Lists [At
Internet Archive, from geneology.org]
- Wikipedia: Irish Americans
- Italian
- Jewish
- Other
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Asian Immigration
- WEB Chinese Exclusion Act: Primary Documents in American History [Library of Congress] [Internet Archive version here]
- WEB Chinatown [At PBS] [Internet Archive version here]
- Mark Twain [pseud of Samuel Clemens](1835-1910): The Gentle, Inoffensive
Chinese, 1871, from Roughing It, Volume II, Chapter XIII. [At Schaffer Drug
Library] [Internet Archive version here]
- San Francisco
Chinatown Opium Den – 1870's [Image][At Drug Library] [Internet Archive version here]
- Chinese Miners
in the Gold Fields - 1860 [Image][At Drug Library] [Internet Archive version here]
- Chinatown
Declared a Nuisance! [At Drug Library] [Internet Archive version here]
This is the full text of a sixteen-page pamphlet, "Chinatown Declared a
Nuisance!"; distributed by the Workingmen's Committee of California, it called for
the abatement of Chinatown as a health menace.
- California: Anti-Coolie
Act, 1862 [At Drug Library] [Internet Archive version here]
"An Act to protect free White labor against competition with Chinese collie labor,
and to discourse the immigration of the Chinese into the state of California, April 26,
1862"
- Albert S. Evans: A
Cruise on the Barbary Coast, Chapter 12 of A la California. Sketch of Life in the
Golden State, c, 1871. [At Drug Library] [Internet Archive version here]
- Allen S. Williams: The
Demon of the Orient, 1883 [At Drug Library] [Internet Archive version here]
- Chinese Exclusion Act May 6, 1882 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
- Wikipedia: Chinese Exclusion Act
- Jacob Riis (1849-1914): Chinatown in New York 1890 [Was At Yale, now Internet Archive]
- John W. Foster: The
Chinese Boycott, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1906 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
Criticizes America's discrimination against Chinese immigrants in America as racist. This
behavior incited a Chinese boycott of American trade.
- Wikipedia: History of Chinese Americans
- Wikipedia: Japanese Americans
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Latin American Immigration
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Ellis Island and New York
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Opposition to Immigration
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Francis A. Walker: Restriction of Immigration, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1896 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
Warnings about "vast inpourings of southern European immigrants"
- Wikipedia: Yellow Peril
Anti-Asian racism.
- Robert DeCourcey Ward: Immigration and the South, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1905 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
Against the North's "unloading of second-rate immigrants by sending them South."
- William Z. Ripley: Races
in the United States, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1908 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
The "problem" of Mediterranean, Slavic, and Oriental races upon the character of
the nation.
- Don D. Lescohier: Immigration and the Labor Supply, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1905 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
Immigrants would undermine the improved labor standards that American workers were
struggling to establish.
- Randolph S. Bourne: Transnational America, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1916 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
On the failure of the "Melting Pot".
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