HIS 3150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Voluntary Association, American Public Health Association, Herbert J. Gans
26 Jul 2018
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"pull" factors: unequal growth (in favour of cities, means of communication and transportation. 1840-60: 4m irish and germans: 1845-60: 1. 5m irish. Scandinavians: building trades: racialism and community, chinese: garment industry, germans. "nativism: 1840-90: 5. 5m catholics, riots of 1834 (boston, 1844 (philadelphia, 1855 (louisville, 1844-6: know-nothing/american party (ma, pa, md) Chinese: oct. 1871: riot in la, 1879: new ca constitution, 1882: restriction to merchants and family members, renewed in 1892; permanent in 1902, abrogated in 1943. Drops in immigration when the economy stagnated or dropped. Italians, jews, southern and eastern europeans: midwest: germans, poles, czechs, hungarians, poorer, more rural in origin, more into cities, 1910: 85% of american jews lived in cities of 5000+ people; 1. 5m in nyc. Largely due to discrimination: had to huddle together and create solidarity, even more urbanized than the first wave, 1880s: 5. 2m, 1990: 8. 8m. Peak years: 1905, "06, "07, "10, "13, "14 - 1: 1907: >1m through ellis island.
