Week of February 19, Friday Lecture

"NEW NATIONALISM" AND CHANGING DEFINITIONS OF AMERICA: IMMIGRATION IN THE 1920s

World Map

Political World Map

Map of North America

I. Immigration in U.S. History

1. The Formative Period (1565-1815)
   
2. The Long 19th Century (1815-1924)
   
   • Support for Immigration
     
     • IMAGE: "Uncle Sam is a man of strong features," cartoon, 1898, Judge Magazine
     • IMAGE: "Looking Backward,", cartoon, 1893, Puck
   • Beginning to Close the Door
     • 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
     • IMAGE: "The Anti-Chinese Wall," cartoon
3. The Era of Restriction (1924-1965)
4. The Era of Renewed Immigration (1965- Today)

II. The Era of Restriction -- Focus on the 1920s

1. Sources of Nativism
   James Phelan on the Unassimilability of the Japanese
   The KKK on Immigration (MSU Special Collections)
2. Progressive Era Science
3. The Problem Was The New Sources of Immigrants: Racism and Religious Intolerance
4. Closing the Door

III. Intolerance

1. The Jewish Question
   Henry Ford's The International Jew
2. Anti-Black Urban Riots and Lynchings
   IMAGE: Chicago Race Riots, 1919
3. The KKK
   IMAGE: William Simmons
   IMAGE: Hiram Evans
   IMAGE: Still from Birth of a Nation
4. Persecution of Immigrants and Hyphenated Americans
   • Sacco and Vanzetti Case
     IMAGE: Sacco & Vanzetti
     Vanzetti's Last Statement
     IMAGE: The Cause Celebre

IV. 20s Cultural Reaction

1. The Fundamentalist Revolt (Scopes Monkey Trial)
   IMAGE: Darrow and Bryan
2. B. Prohibition: the Last Progressive Reform
   IMAGE: "The Noble Experiment"
   IMAGE: The Speakeasy

V. Establishing Quotas

VI. Understanding this Reaction

1. Preserving Old Values
2. Looking toward the Nation's Future

VII. The Future of America's Immigrants

return to America and the First World War