Essays on Brinkley.

Introduction

During the years from 1865 to 1935 great masses of people were traveling from Europe and from China to the Americas looking for a way to fulfill their dreams. The Irish and Chinese immigrant experience was similar in the way that because they were both seen as “foreign unskilled labor” they were both given low-paying unskilled jobs without a path to progress to better jobs. They were both treated badly by the earlier immigrants to the country who now considered themselves the true, native Americans. Other than that the experiences between the two immigrant groups is very different. We will ...

Immigration

These cartoons portray the immense fear that engulfed America during the 1860s at the time when the Irish and Chinese immigrants had significantly increased in number. First, there is the dread of the natives, represented by Uncle Sam, being swallowed by foreign immigrants. In the first instance, both the Chinese and Irish are devouring the American. In the next instance, after the native has been consumed, the Chinese man turns against the Irish and consumes him too. Far of within the background, several railroads are also to be seen (Brinkley, 2010, p.78). The Irish migrated to America mostly ...

Immigration

The book “The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People” incorporates the socio-political perspective of the American history into a well-organized piece of art that provides a vivid description of the measure and complexity of the American past. At some point in the book, the issue of the immigrants takes the center stage (Brinkley, 2010, p.25). The Americans at the time, were caught in between two critical decisions that they were to make. This was the idea of how they could get immigrants who had skills, those whom they could easily assimilate so that they could contribute to their ...