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Monday, April 14, 2008

Political Cartoons

You know that by now immigrants in the 1800s were harshly treated legally (laws) and illegally (violence). Chinese on the west coast were being treated harshly as indentured servants working on the railroad. The Irish settled in New York and Boston, and were factory workers when they were allowed to apply for jobs. Meanwhile, Blacks were suffering yet again during Reconstruction were discovering a new racism in the South. Here we'll look at some cartoons that were originally published in the late 1800s. There are 4 in total and has a question - think of this as practice for the Regents Test.

QUESTION1:
What does this imply about the future for Chinese immigrants in the United States?


QUESTION2:
Why are the Chinese moving East and Blacks moving out West?



QUESTION3:
What does this imply about the difference between Blacks and newly arrived Irish immigrants?



QUESTION4:
What does this imply about the differences between immigrant groups and their acceptance into the US?

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

answer to question #1 that the chinesse have to work really hard for their spot in the united states!

answer to question #2 the chinesse a moving east and the black west because they are not wanted anywhere and the blacks only know how to farm and do labor while the chinesse are trying to gain their respect in the united states by working for the robber barons.

answer to question #4 immigrants havent been in the US longer than all the other groups that are in the united states so the americans dont really want them there so they are going to use them totheir advantage.

Anonymous said...

Q1: THE CHIENSE ARE TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO FIX THEY'RE PROBLEM IN FITTING IN.

Q2: THEY DIDN'T WANT THE BLACKS NOR THE CHINESE IMM. SO THEY HAD TO GO THERE OWN WAY BECAUSE THERE WAS ALOT OF RACISM.

Q3: IT SEEMS THAT THEY WERE TREATED THE SAME.

Q4: EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE BOTH IMM. THEY DIDN'T LIKE EACH OTHER.

Anonymous said...

Question One: The new "Native Americans" didn't want the Chinese people to be in the united states because they were taking their jobs, according to them; because of this, they made a laws prohibiting the Chinese people to come into the country.

Question Two: As in the cartoon says, the shotgun policy was established in the west which is when the Ku Klux Klan was form by a group of Mississippians and started attacking black people and killed three hundred, so the blacks were scared and started moving to the west. It also says that Nixon was taking them out.
The Chinese people weren't wanted in the west so they went to east.

Question Three: In these balance you can see that they weight the same which means that they were the same in the country so they had the same rights, also the black person is pictured as a older monkey because it has in the united states longer than the irish which was pictured as a younger better looking monkey. But they're both still monkeys with the same rights.

Question Four: This implies that newly immigrants aren't welcome in the united states, and they were using Washington and Webster as an excuse to get them out.

Anonymous said...

1.i think that the chinese should think of what could they do so the native s american wont take them out.

2.well what i see that their was alot of rascims with the blacks everywhre they go they get treated bad and they move to the west and the chinese they dont care what is happening with the blacks they are trying to get the respect of the americans.

3. what i see the blacks were the only to be treated bad their were others.

4.that the immigrants were not been getting treated nice by the americans.

Anonymous said...

Q1: This cartoon is saying that the chinese are being hate by the poor whites because they are taking over the jobs.

Q2: Chinese moving East and Blacks moving out West because both are being treated bad so probily if they moved to a different place they will treat them diffrently.

Q3: In this cartton we see that Blacks and Irish pretty much the same, they get paid them cheap and have basically the same rights.

Q4: In this one they saying that if the immigrants stays they are going to have problems and sooner or later they are going to start fighthing.

Anonymous said...

Question Une: They need to search for a new place to find a future because there not being accepted in the us.

Question Deux:There was a lae called the Chinese exclusion which meant chinese were not allowded in the us because of rascism and because they thought the chinese would take over the jobs

Question Trois:There even there both under whites so i belive maby they should make a alliance

Question Quatre: They were rascist and immigrants werent being liked and it was messed up

Anonymous said...

Q1;i really didt understand this one much, but i believe that it show how the native people (not indians) natives of the land of the untied states is that the chinese or on their terroity and that they are not welcome
Q2:i guess that the since the blacks are more skillful in the farm area and plantion and the west are all of farms and open land then that where they go to get jobs , and the chinese in technogy and building things they went to the east where all the factory are, then that was their posbilties of getting jobs
Q3: the cartoon is implying that in some sort of way the balck have more right and are more welcome in the untied states then the irish but on the balance is showing the the blacks is just a little lighter then the irish which is also implying that they really consider them the same .
Q4: this cartoon is showing that all immigrants was not accept in the untied states.

jennifer.m said...

Q.1~ In order for the chinese immigrants to have future in the United States they would have to work hard because it's all about competition, with whites blacks and others, too.

Q.2~ Like Keylla said, in 1882 the chinese exclusion act was passed, which it basically was that chinese were not wanted in the U.S. And with blacks i think that they are moving south because they have experience with farming and there are many plantations in the south.

Q.3~ I think that this imply about the difference between Blacks and newly arrived Irish immigrants that they were treated the same. They were equal, basically.

Q.4~ This cartoon shows how Native Americans are trying to warn immigrants qroups that they would not be easly accepted in the U.S. In other words, for them to not waste their time coming to a place where they would most likely have hell.

Anonymous said...

Q1:According 2 this cartoon,the future for Chinese immigrants wasn't good.here I can see how natives or whites were discriminating the Chinese, is funny how some white people still call themselves natives Americans when they are not,2 me is funny because it shows me how stupid they are I guess they never learned history.Q2:Chinese moved 2 the east coast because there lives there sucked as I mentioned before, but as we know they were not the only ones.African Americans as always were also discriminated by "Natives Americans" so they went west.

Anonymous said...

Question #3: this cartoon imply about the difference between blacks and newly arrived Irish immigrants ,but 2 b honest, to me there is no difference only the way they are dressed but they are on the same level.like us I will say, Hispanic, Jamaican,Asian etc, we look different have different culture ,speak different language but "natives Americans" treat us the same since we are immigrants and they are not... yeah right, I think this is why I am always happy because I don't care if white people or whoever like me or not I am proud of being who I am and they can't mess with me because this is not the 1800's anymore but some people still don't get it and they should try 2 eat some Dominican "platano" to get their brain functioning and realize this is a new century.

Anonymous said...

answer to question #3 what this implies about the difference between blacks and newly arrived Irish immigrants is that now the white and blacks are equal and the imigrants are going to have to get mistreated and work for less money than the whites and the blacks.

Anonymous said...

I'd like to comment on question 3. This cartton shows that although the irish and blaxks are of different races they have experienced similar difficulties particularly discrimmination since their arrival in the u.s. The oppressor (waschicu) still dislikes them. They get paid the same, live in the same places and want the same rights. They are equal.

Anonymous said...

Q:#1......this cartoon implies that the chinese are not wanted in the unites states...they will be treated like the rest...ex: blacks

Q:#2...because blacks are being mistreated in the south...noone wants them there...and the chinese people were not wanted in the west


Q:#4...this cartoon is tellin me that being that the irsih looks like te whites they will receive more priviledges that any other immigrant

Anonymous said...

MANDY ANDREWS.. PERiOD 5 THE BEST!!

*WHAT DOES THiS iMPLY ABOUT THE FUTURE FOR CHiNESE iMMiGRANTS iN THE UNiTED STATES?*
---->THE FUTURE FOR CHiNESE iMMiGRANTS WAS LOOKiNG REAL BAD THE WHiTES DiDNT LiKE THE FACT THAT iMMiGRANTS WAS COMiiNG TO THE UNiTED STATES AND TAKiNG ALL OF THEiR JOBS.. SO ThEY CAME UP WiTH THE EXCLUSiON ACT TO GET RiD OF ALL THE CHiNESE PEOPLE.

*WHY ARE THE CHiNESE MOViNG EAST AND THE BLACKS MOViNG OUT WEST?*
---->THE BLACKS WANTED JOBS AND THEY KNEW FARMiNG BEST SO THEY WENT WEST WHiLE THE CHiNESE MOVED EAST BECAUSE THEY KNEW FACTORY WORK FAR BETTER.

*WHAT DOES THiS iMPLY ABOUT THE DiFFERENCE BETWEEN BLACKS AND NEWLY ARRiVED iRiSH iMMiGRANTS?*
----> THiS DOESN'T iMPLY NO DiFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BLACKS AND THE iRiSH iMMiGRANTS BECAUSE THEY WERE TREATED THE SAME THE ONLY DiFFERENCE THiS DOESN'T SHOW iS THAT EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE EQUAL THE WHiTES COULD DEAL WiTH THE BLACKS BUT THE iMMiGRANTS WAS RUiNiNG iT FOR THEM.

*WHAT DOES THiS iMPLY ABOUT THE DiFFERENCE BETWEEN iMMiGRANT GROUPS AND THEiR ACCEPTANCE iNTO THE U.S.?*
---->THiS iMPLYS THAT iN ORDER TO BE ACCEPTED BY THE WHiTE MAN U HAVE TO RESEMBLE THEiR SKiN COLOR AND iRiSH LOOKED LiKE THEM, THEY WOULD RATHER TEAM UP WiTH SOMEONE THAT LOOKS LiKE THEM RATHER THAN SOMEONE WHO LOOKS THE TOTAL OPPOSiTE.

Anonymous said...

QUESTION #1
THEY ARE GOING TO GO THRU THE SAME THING BLACKS WENT THRU.

QUESTION #2
THEY ARE NOT WANTED IN EITHER SIDE.

QUESTION #3
BOTH THE BLACKS AND IRISH ARE NOT LIKED THERE. THE BLACKS WEIGHT A LITTLE LIGHTER THATN TE IRISH, THEY WERE REALLY NOT LIKED !!

QUESTION #4
THE IRISH WERE STARTING TO TRY AND THROW PEOPLE OUT BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO BE PART OF THE WHITES.

Anonymous said...

Q:1~ THIS IMPLIES THAT CHINESE IMMIGRANTS WERE DEFINTELY NOT WELCOME IN THE U.S AS WELL AS THE NATIVES, AND BLACKS....

Q:2~ THE BLACKS AND THE CHINESE ARE BOTH MOVING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION BECAUSE NEITHER OF THEM ARE WANTED WHERE THEY ARE....

Q:3 THIS IMPLIES THAT THERE WAS REALLY NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BLACKS AND NEWLY ARRIVED IRISH IMMIGRANTS THEY BOTH WERE UNWANTED IN THE U.S .....

Q:4 THIS IMPLIES THAT IRISH IMMIGRANTS WERE MORE ACCEPTED IN THE U.S THAN THE CHINESE MAN

Anonymous said...

leny
now the chinese have to do their best work very hard and earn their spot like like others.#1

the chinese are moving east because nobody wants them. And blacks are moving south because, there is alot of fields, and they are use to working in fields.#2

the difference is blacks hardly worked in factories but white irish worked in factories so it wasn't a big deal.#3

what it means is that they will have too work double as hard and U.S will take advantage cause immigrants don't know better and also they don't know the law.##4

Anonymous said...

i agree with mario on question one and also i think they made the laws beacuse they also think if they stoped the chinese people from comming into the states they could get the chance to work for a higher payment and go on strikes and so on.if the chinese works for lower income the robber barons will go for the chinese people instead of other workers thats why i think they made that law