Poverty and Immigration Restriction, 1882-1910

To many Americans there was an imagined link between poverty and immigration. Since most immigrants were poor, Americans made the false leap to the conclusion that most poor people were immigrants, or that their poverty was caused by immigration. In today's lecture, captured below as an audio podcast, we look at how Americans viewed the "Old" and the "New" immigrants and recoiled at the sources of immigration between 1882 and 1910. The organizations and legislation that resulted are reviewed.

"Golden Door" No More: Poverty and Immigration in the late Nineteenth Century Lens(audio podcast)