American Studies 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Shining City, Gilded Age, Immigration Restriction League
26 Jan 2016
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Scapegoating of immigrants or undesirable peoples as the cause of many societies ills. Community of peril/always endanger: its popularity comes and goes. Irish immigrants at the time were seen as sub-human . They didn"t like the idea of them bringing over their own religion. The native american party aka, the no nothings. They had many policies, but their big one was their anti-immigration policies. They only wanted only the protestant, white, american-born people to be in charge of things. They are popular around the time of the build-up of the civil wars: the no nothings split, because of the fight between the north and the south, they lose power. Became dormant during and past the civil war years. Capitalism relies on a surplus of labor can be taken up or snuffed-out depending on the environment: allows for us to preserve the notion that political and economic system is working.
