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3/2/2020 Immigrations to the US Irish: Potatoe Famine Chinese: Opium War Jews (Russia): Russian pogroms.persecutions Italians: Mostly from poor areas of Southern Italy Realism Courbet (Stone-breakers) ⁃ Grinding rigor of working class people France: 1848 Revolutions Menzel (Iron Rolling Mill) ⁃ Industrial sublime Anchutz (The Ironworkers’ Noontime) ⁃ Shows more of a sublime aspect Eakins (Swimming Hole) ⁃ Working atmosphere and leisure atmosphere ⁃ You can still see similarities in how the figure was depicted Harper’s Weekly ⁃ Radical republican ⁃ immediate complete eradication of slavery ⁃ Nast was first to use elephant as symbol of the Republican Party and donkey as symbol of Democrats Homer ⁃ New England Factory Life Harpers Weekly 1868 ⁃ Showed the plight of the factory workers

Irish ⁃ Began working in the manual labor jobs ⁃ Worked on Transcontinental RR ⁃ In paintings was depicted as Westward Expansions ⁃ Arduous work of laying a RR was not shown ⁃ Immigrants were valuable to building and laying tracks ⁃ Met in Utah British were really antagonist towards the Irish ⁃ Irish workers had background in mining ⁃ Came to he US as a result of several horrific events ⁃ British antagonist toward Irish ⁃ Potato Famine ⁃ Coffin Ships transporting Irish to US

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Nearly 1/4 die Not well received in the US Guerilla type images Subhuman, savages, that would destroy civilization Similar rhetoric that was used to describe Native Americans Maguires Irish secret society Coal miners in PENN 10 hanged in 1877 10 others hanged in next 2 years

1882 Chinese Exclusion Act ⁃ The act excluded Chinese skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining ⁃ Denying citizenship to Chinese immigrants for 10 years ⁃ First US law to prevent immigration ⁃ 1892 Geary Act ⁃ Extended the 1882 Act another 10 years ⁃ Laundry businesses are common for Chinese are they take little investment, but they were able to work hard with it ⁃ NAST ⁃ White population of SanFrancisco is scared of the yellow population ⁃ Chinese Massacre, LA (1871) ⁃ Mob violence killed 17-20 ⁃ 1877: Two day riot in San Fran ⁃ 4 people killed ⁃ More than 100k worth of property damage ⁃ The Chinese Must go, but who keeps them? ⁃ -A lot of people depend on their labor ⁃ Supreme order of caucasians vowed to annihilate white people who did not boycott groups on their list because they were using their services ⁃ Uncle Sam’s Farm in Danger ⁃ Northern Chinese people are starving, moving to the US ⁃ Compared to Locus ⁃ Oct. 31 1880 (DENVER) ⁃ Anti-Chinese riot in Denver ⁃ 1 person hanged ⁃ Many brutally beaten ⁃ Chinatown in Denver was near present day Coors Field Worker riots ⁃ Gelert Police Minument ⁃ Haymarket Riot ⁃ Strike for 40-hour week at McCormick Reaper Works on 8/3/86 ⁃ Presents opportunity to persecute people...