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Things You Do When You Sit Down

Things You Do When You Sit Down. January 26 – 30 . What factors motivated the passage of the legislation depicted above? What were the effects on immigration? . Jan 26.

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Things You Do When You Sit Down

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  1. Things You Do When You Sit Down January 26 – 30

  2. What factors motivated the passage of the legislation depicted above? What were the effects on immigration? Jan 26

  3. “This case turns upon the constitutionality of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, passed in 1890, providing for separate railway carriages for the white and colored races ... We consider the underlying fallacy [error in reasoning] of the plaintiff's argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is ... solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it. ... The argument also assumes that social prejudices may be overcome by legislation, and that equal rights cannot be secured ... except by an enforced commingling [mixing] of the two races. We cannot accept this proposition. ... If the civil and political rights of both races be equal, one cannot be inferior to the other civilly or politically. If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane. ...” From what 1896 Supreme Court decision is the passage above excerpted? What was the long-term consequence for Black people in the United States? Jan 27

  4. Jan 28-29 What aspect of life for the “New Immigrants” do these documents dramatize?

  5. “America is God’s crucible, the great melting pot, where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! . . . Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians—into the Crucible with you all! God is making the American!” - Israel Zangwill With what group would Zangwill most likely identify? The American Protective Association Hull House in Chicago Social Darwinists The Knights of Labor Explain why! Jan 30 Israel Zangwill (1864–1926)

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