UGC 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Culture Shock, Positive Force, Boxer Rebellion

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Undergraduate College
• Course: UGC 112
• Professor: Michelle Benson

Document Summary

Peoples in motion: mass emigration on a global scale: caucasian tsunami or demographic revolution of europeans to the united states (and) argentina) in the 1840s,1970s, and again in 1901-1910 with over 6 million to the u. s. Industrialism pushed millions to migrate within their own countries, from the countryside to cities or to new frontiers. People traveled as: mine, construction and plantation laborers (to replace slaves, colonial officials and soldiers, missionaries or hunters, merchants and traders. Migration were sometimes risky and brought painful experiences in the new land: tensions from low wages, poor working and living conditions, and exploitation, culture shock and loss of family network. There were few restrictions until 1914: u. s. chinese exclusion act, 1882. There chinese exclusion act of 1882 was the first significant law restricting immigration into the united states. Those on the west coast were especially prone to attribute declining wages and economic ills on the despised chinese workers.