Because they were occupied with the Napoleonic Wars they could only supply 5000 troops to Canada to help repel the American advances. The leadership of upper Canada were uncertain of the loyalty of the inhabitants, many acts of treason and mutiny occurring at the start if the war. Because of this Sir Issac Brock felt the need to go on the offensive to gain the trust of the people. Sir Issac Brock said “there can be no doubt that a large portion of the population of this neighbourhood are sincere in their professions to defend this country, but it appears like likewise evident to me that the greater part are either indifferent to what is passing, or so completely American as to rejoice in the prospects of a change in governments”[1]. This is his reasoning for why he needs to gain the trust of the people.
Adler College Gurabo, PR U. S. History Essay I Angel R. Pérez 11-1 Professor Ruiz August 27, 2013 The opening to China 1839 – 1844 The opening to China symbolized the U. S.’s attempts to expand westward. The opening itself was very dissimilar to the Japanese, since the Chinese were willing to do so. But it wasn’t only the Americans, the British and other European powers sought China for products because of their great deal of products to choose from. The Chinese on the other hand, were getting less interested in western products as westerners to Chinese products. This disinterest led to a chain of events that led the U. S. to gaining power in China.
Confederation was the main issue. Those who were opposed to Confederation made fun of the whole idea. They also complained that the subsidy they would receive from the central government each year only amounted to eighty cents per person. This was not enough. They felt that Tilley was selling New Brunswickers out to the Canadians for eighty cents each.
The Chinese were a great help to our country by providing cheap labor, but because of that they took jobs from the American laborers who desired higher wages and because the overwhelming amount of Chinese immigrants assimilating into our society we passed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that placed a restriction on immigration of Chinese laborers. If we view this situation in the point of view of Indians how would us, Americans, feel if the Indians prohibited the immigration of the earliest “Americans or Pilgrims” who came to the
Documents 3 and 7 believed the Europeans were a threat to their culture and therefore, attempted to cut off influence from them. An additional document that shows the separate reactions of regions toward Europeans, preferably in a dated map, would be helpful in determining the overall views of non-European people toward these European explorations. Europeans were felt by some as a threat to native culture and as such, were looked upon negatively. China during this time regarded European expansion negatively due to the change in culture many felt Europeans would cause (Doc 3). However, the authors of the document were Chinese magistrates who did not reflect the views of the lower classes.
Chinese tend to dedicate more allegiance and loyalty to the family than to the state. An old Chinese saying goes like this: “The sky is so high and the emperor is so far away”, which means “there is no need to care about the emperor”. Such a saying, more or less, shows Chinese Americans’ attitudes towards politics. According to Chinese history, people tend to avoid having discussion about politics in public. It was a social taboo for ordinary people to get too active in political issues, even criticizing and talking was not allowed.
Many of these theories were based off of racism and the feeling of Anglo-Saxon Supremacy. U.S. Congress passed the Chinese exclusion act this act prohibited all Chinese Immigration into the United States, The Chinese were excluded from entering the U.S. because of their willingness to work for less money. The American people wanted more earnings than most immigrants ( Doc C). Document B expresses the need for regulation of allowing European immigrants into the United States and illustrates the results of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, which limited the number of new immigrants to 3 percent of the number of immigrants existing already in the United States. There is a giant funnel that starts in Europe and deposits immigrants into the United States.
Bureau of the Census. I then related to the population and how it affected the lack of jobs in America. This interested me because after the gold rush and the foreign miners tax, Chinese workers began to get other job to make money, making the Americans have no jobs cause them to have hatred over the Chinese immigrants. Exclusion Act (Didn’t allow immigrants into the United states for 10 years.) http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=UHIC&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&source=&sortBy=&displayGroups=&search_within_results=&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ1667500114 Lastly, I found the Exclusion Act, in which it didn’t allow any more immigrants into the United States.
This was a terrible time for many Canadians, as many men and woman had lost their jobs. [4] The stock market crash happened because too many people were investing in stocks, hoping to make easy money, but backfired on Canadians. More people we’re losing their jobs, and the economy would be falling more and more. By the 30’s, technology had not been as advanced as it is today and because of the advanced technology, more job opportunities are offered to many people thus with the many job opportunities. Canadians will not have to rely on stock market as they did in
In the mid-nineteenth century, due to the push-pull factors such as economic and political instability in China, and the gold rush in California, thousands of Chinese migrated to the United States. Chinese immigrants came to America in search for jobs and hopes for a better life. Many Chinese immigrant men took upon jobs constructing the Trans-Pacific railroad which was completed in 1869. During the economic crisis that erupted in America shortly after the completion of the railroad, discrimination against Chinese immigrants grew, making it nearly impossible for them to find jobs. To make the situation even worse for the Chinese, California amended its constitution in the late 1870s, which restricted Chinese immigrants from citizenship; in-turn prohibiting anyone from hiring them legally.