AMH-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gilded Age, Literacy Test, Masculinity
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Congress passes increasingly restrictive legislation: 1903 immigration act. Bans anarchists from entering the country: 1907 immigration act. Bans those who are mentally and physically defective. Idiots, imbeciles, epileptics, alcoholics, poor people, criminals, anyone with a disease: remember this: 3 ds. Literacy test in order to enter the country. Quota acts: each country limited to a small annual quota of immigrants, 1921 quota act. (cid:1007)% of the group"s populatio(cid:374) i(cid:374) the u as of the (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1005)(cid:1004) ce(cid:374)sus: 1924 quota act. (cid:1006)% of the group"s populatio(cid:374) i(cid:374) the u as of the (cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1013)(cid:1004) census. Asian immigrants barred from entering: percentage of people already in the us. Gender in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Middle class masculinity: rise of the middle class in the gilded age. Desk jobs instead of manual labor jobs: crisis in confidence. Men worried that the comforts at home were making them soft. Intellectually demanding jobs rather than physically demanding jobs made them (cid:862)(cid:449)eak(cid:863: (cid:862)the tre(cid:374)uous life(cid:863)
