Regions Chart | Category | North | South | West | Midwest | Political | Labor unions were formed | For the African Americans were hard to enjoy the railroad transportation because of the laws. | They faced problems, including riots and discriminatory laws. | Less problem with the government. | Social | There was a separation between the rich and the poor | Many African Americans left the South to work in new factories in the North and Midwest. | Immigrants from China arrived in the West looking for jobs on the expanding railroads.
Immigration became a conflict after the discovery of gold in California in 1848 which brought numerous of contract Chinese laborers to the western part of the United States. Since labor was short in supply the Chinese were welcomed, but with time American workers began to see them as competition. The Chinese put the American workers in disadvantage, for they were willing to do menial jobs for a low salary. The job competition really intensified, leading American laborers to yell “The Chinese must go!” (Congress of 1870s) As a result of the conflict a Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in 1882, it prohibited the immigration of the Chinese for ten years. After the ten year termination, the exclusion act was reenacted without a terminal date.
Those peasants had easy access to ships to go to the United States and other places. The Chinese learned about the Gam Saan “Gold Mountains” in which migrants hope to make money and return to buy land or help their families out of debt. Many of the migrants were not coolies. They used the credit ticket system; they borrowed money from a broker to buy a ticket. Many of them were illiterate with wives back in China.
Most of the Chinese immigrants in San Francisco can only find jobs with minimal requirement, such as laundrymen. Laundrymen were described as a phenomenon in United States. Since in China, males didn’t want to step into this occupation for fear of losing their social standing, because they thought laundry work was a “woman’s” occupation. But in order to survive and made a living, laundry work opened a minimal required job market to those Chinese
Tom Joad represents society’s poor, whose main priority is just surviving and working towards a better life; this is in contrast to the rich landowners of California who most value wealth and land. This difference in priorities has brought about a societal gap resulting in animosity between the two groups and feelings of alienation among the poor, migrant community. In the 1930’s thousands of families flocked to California searching for a better life, but their hopes and dreams were soon thwarted by the relentless greed and hostility of California’s well-established and wealthy landowners. The migrants came to California searching for a better life, looking for a stable source of work and income, but the rich landowners had no sympathy or compassion toward the migrants; they viewed
From the 1950’s to the 1970’s there were many changes taking place. Those changes including culture, politics, and economy. White men were able to get back to work and provide enough money so women didn’t need to go back to work. A lot of women still wanted to work, but social expectations kept them from doing so. This is where the famous picture of the typical happy housewife came from, although it wasn’t exactly the case.
Yes, I understand that that discrimination isn’t bad how it was back in the day, but we still see it each day. In source B it talked about how the Chinese immigrant coming in the U.S telling us that this chinese immigrants are trying to come to the United States to find a job to gain money so they can help their families. Then the the people of the U.S then realized that the Chinese are taking “their” jobs away so they started to deporte the Chinese just like today. Many Latinos are trying to cross the border to find a better life and send money to their families, and lots of people in the U.S calling them aliens, illegal, immigrants and some much more.There is also something in source F that really gets me mad in my opinion, what is the difference between Mexican American and other Latinos what is that suppose to mean. In conclusion the speech that President Johnson The Great Society still has not accomplish it's dream till this day.
Their rice allowance was cut by up to half, and rice had small buying power. Some samurai became traders to earn money but the decline in samurai was disadvantageous for the Bakufu as samurai were the backbone of the feudal system. The chonin class were discontent as they wanted to improve their social class—they had achieved economic power and political influence through trade but Japan’s focus on scholarship and military prevented them from receiving any recognition. They were also owed money from samurai but the government, in attempt to lessen financial burden on the samurai, would cancel these debts. The lowest class, peasants, also displayed their discontentment through frequent
Canada had a very high lack of employment in which the Chinese had good opportunities to get jobs to be able to buy land, grow their own crops to feed their families. In 1858 gold was discovered along the Fraser River in British Columbia. There was a high demand for minors so that encouraged even more Chinese immigrants to come to Canada. To conclude the loyalists had a harder immigration than the Chinese because of the war and the complications of them being exiled from their own
The farms that the Japanese once owned and leased were now run by refugees from dust bowl. Sections of Los Angeles where the Japanese once lived were taken over by African American people. Housing was very expensive, and many Japanese had a hard time finding shelter. They had to resort to trailers parks and low rent apartments. (Yancey