HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Switchboard Operator, American Middle Class
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Immigrants stay in the north east, industrial area. Up north (dakota and wisconsin) large commercial farms change in imm pattern, many southern and eastern europeans dwarf the upper european and uk imm. American middle class is rising, white native born protestants. Many americans not to happy about the immigrants. Asians faced the most discrimination, most different from the. Chinese immigration is soon banned, those in america/american are treated like the blacks. Eastern euro is also hated, fear of the major socialist and marxist movements back home. Rooted in a few strands, protection of the usa, immigrants are radicals, and hierarchy of race (germans and austrians at the top) Policy change, shut he door to immigrants, becomes restrictive. More ppl live in a urban setting than ppl live in rural, census 1920. The tenements, slums, dingy nature, basically a shit hole.
