HIST 2013 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Samuel Gompers
25 Aug 2016
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Redrawing the boundaries the aim was not for total reform, the aim was working with the system in place and refining it from within. Lecture objectives: discuss the fluidity of whiteness as a social category during the period of new wave immigration, highlight the ways in which the demands of social groups narrowed at the turn of the twentieth century. Redrawing the boundaries: immigration: the new immigration greater volumes of people causing cities to be more connected. Everyone lumped together under generalizations, aka slavs not really. Push political liberalization in europe (political unrest: the west. Chinese exclusion act (1882) no more chinese immigration: extended twice 1892, 1902, eventually repealed decades later. Knights of labor attack chinese businesses in the 1890s. Redrawing the boundaries: defining whiteness wasn"t about color of skin, about virtuous citizen (closer to. Expands this to birthright citizenship and allows for citizenship for. Redrawing the boundaries: self-help: emergence of booker t. washington.
