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"... immigration not only furnishes the greater portion of our criminals, it is also seriously affecting the morals of the native population. It is disease not health which is contagious. Most foreigners bring with them their continental ideas of Sabbath, and the result is sadly manifest in all our cities... from holy day into holiday. But by far the most effective instrumentality for debauching (corrupting) popular morals is the liquor traffic, and this is chiefly carried on by foreigners..."

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"In every American city with a large, foreign vote have appeared the boss, the machine, and the Tammany way (Tammany Hall was a the corrupt city government of New York City). Once the machine gets its grip on the situation, it broadens and intrenches its power by intimidation at the polls, ballot frauds, vote purchases, saloon influence, and the support of the vicious and criminal. But its tap root is the simple --minded foreigner.

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"These two men are brothers, one is an American citizen and the other has just come to this country with their old mother. See the difference in the way they dress and look. America is a great country. In America, everybody has a chance. Everybody who comes to America from the old country ought to learn the American language and become an American citizen. If the people that come to America do not become Americans, this country will soon be like the old country."

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"These new immigrants were no longer exclusively members of the Nordic race as were the earlier ones who came... the new immigrants (contain) a large... number of the weak, the broken, and the mentally crippled of all races drawn from the lowest (levels) of the Mediterranean basin and the Balkans, together with the hordes of the wretched, submerged populations of the Polish ghettos. Our jails, insane asylums and almshouses are filled with this human flotsam (wreckage) and the whole tone of American life, social, moral, and political has been lowered and vulgarized by them."

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"Some Reason's For The Chinese Exclusion Act, Meat vs Rice: American Manhood Against Asiatic Coolieism," (1902)

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"Some Reason's For The Chinese Exclusion Act, Meat vs Rice: American Manhood Against Asiatic Coolieism," (1902)

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"The Chinese, if permitted freely to enter this country, would create race antagonisms which would ultimately result in great public disturbance. The Caucasians will not tolerate the Mongolian... But this is not alone a race, labor, and political question. It is one which involves our civilization.

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What disease did Strong blame on immigrants? Explain

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According to Ross, what was the influence of immigrants on American politics and government?

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According to this advertisement, why should immigrants learn the "American language?"

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According to Grant, how were the new immigrants different from earlier immigrant groups?

How did Grant see these newer immigrant groups endangering America?

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What nativist arguments are stated in this document?

Consider the source of the statement. What unstated concern do you suspect is the primary reason why this group opposed Chinese immigration?

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1. an argument that is stated is that he believes that the Chinese will start rioting if they are permitted freely.

2. The unstated concern is that he believes that the Chinese will overpopulate Americans and eventually take their jobs.

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1. Nativists are saying that the Chinese would cause conflict and a great public disturbance.

2. The primary reason of why nativists would be opposed against Chinese immigration would be because of the large amount of Chinese immigrants taking away jobs from other American citizens.

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1. One argument from the nativist is that immigrants will make races turn against each other. Another argument is that immigrants are a threat to American Civilization.

2. The unstated concern is that this spokesperson of the American Federation of Labor believes the immigrants will take the jobs from the Americans since they will work for any wage.

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The disease that Strong was blaming the immigrants for was not a health issue but an issue about religion and the change that might come when the immigrants bring their religion with them.

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1. An argument stated is that if Chinese are allowed to be in America freely, they would cause conflict in the civilization. It states that the Chinese would create race antagonisms and cause things like riots to occur.

2. I think an unstated concern or the real concern that these nativists have are that the Chinese would overpopulate America, causing people to lose jobs or create less job opportunity.

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Immigrants should learn the American language so that they could live more like an American and not more like their old culture because the main reason they even moved to America was to get away from their old country.

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1. The nativist points presented in this excerpt argue that in coming Chinese immigrants might result in racial tension and create public disturbances treating the well-being of American society.
2. While the argument in the excerpt are what are presented to Congress, considering the background of the source, The real concern may lay in the fact that this particular union is afraid of that the new immigrants may take all the job opportunities away from "established" American citizens.

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1. The nativist argument states that if the Chinese are permitted freely to enter this country it will cause a riot.

2. The unstated concern is that the Chinese are going to take jobs since they will work for any wage

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1) The main nativist arguments that are stated in this excerpt are that the Chinese immigrants would cause racial conflicts and public disturbances in the United States, such as riots.

2)The unstated concern of this union given their background is that they fear that the Chinese would take Americans' jobs because companies knew that the immigrants would work for less pay.

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The disease that Strong is referring to, is that of the immigrants bringing in there ideas of "holy days" or there morals. Which in the end could hurt the American traditions over time.

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The strong disease that was blamed on the immigrants was that they would change the religion in America and corrupt popular morals.

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The disease Strong blamed on immigrants was that religion and morals would be impacted in a bad way by foreigners. Since foreigners had different morals in their home countries, bringing it to America would result in a change in American morals.

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1. The Chinese if allowed into the U.S would be a bad idea for the fact of they would more then likely start rioting.

2. With over time the Chinese would slowly overpopulate Americans and take there jobs

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1. An argument that is stated in this document is that the Chinese immigrants would cause  public disturbance such as riots.

2. The unstated concern is that American would lose their job to immigrants because immigrants would accept jobs even if they had extremely low wages.

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The disease that Strong blamed the immigrants for was their alcohol. He believes that when immigrants bring in alcohol, people will drink, get drunk, and not take holy days seriously.

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1. The nativists are saying that the Chinese immigrants would cause conflicts like rioting and great public disturbance.
2. The concern that this group had was that they believed that the Chinese would overpopulated America and take jobs from the nativists.

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The immigrants are encouraged to learn English to have a better life and easier one. Since if they dont America will just turn back into there homeland again.

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1. A argument that is stated in this document is that there will be conflict between the Americans and the Asian immigrants.

2. The primary reason why this group opposed Chinese immigration is because they feared that the Chinese would take their jobs away from them.

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According to the advertisement, immigrants should learn the American language in order to become a American citizen and prevent America from being like their other old countries which they moved out of.

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1. According to Grant the new immigrants contained a large number of the weak, the broken, and the mentally crippled.

2. Grant saw the newer immigrants endangering America because the whole tone of American life, social, moral, and political has been lowered by them.

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The disease that strong blamed the immigrants for was not a health problem but a political
problem. They corrupted popular morals.

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1. Nativists argue that if immigration are allowed freely in America, it will cause social disturbance such as riots.

2. Nativists opposed Chinese immigrants because they are afraid they will out number them and take their jobs.

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1. The new immigrants that came were more "unhealthy" then the older ones that came in.

2. The new immigrants would eventually affect the moral/social life of Americans by making them feel lowered.

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1) This nativist is stating that there would be an increase in conflicts and feuds between different races, which can be prevented if the Chinese are kept out of America.

2) I suspect that the primary reason why this group opposed Chinese immigration is because these nativists didn't want immigrants to replace them in their jobs, since they worked for such low pay.

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The disease that Rev. Strong blamed the immigrants for was the new cultures and beliefs that the immigrants were bringing into the country. He believed that these immigrants were disrespecting holy days and turning them into holidays. He also believed that all of the alcohol that the immigrants were bringing in and enjoying was also a threat to his traditional beliefs.

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The immigrants should learn the "American Language" so they can become an American citizen. Also if they don't learn the language, America will soon become like their old country.

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Immigrants should learn English, the American language, because it will be harder for them to assimilate into society. If the immigrants don't learn English, then America will be like the country they left.

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The immigrants should learn the American language because they moved from their home town to America. In order to live in America you need to be able to speak their language.

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The disease that Strong blamed the immigrants for was a "disease" in religion and beliefs. Strong explains that foreigners will bring their new ideas and beliefs of Sabbath, and it will result in people believing in something new. He believed that with the immigrants coming, religious holy days would become holidays.

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1. According to Grant, a large amount of the new immigrants are weak, broken, and mentally crippled.

2. Grant saw this new group of immigrants as no good since the American social and political morals had changed/been lowered.

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Strong blamed the immigrants for affecting the morals of the native population. For example, the immigrants would bring their idea of Sabbath and change holy day to holiday.

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Every city had a large vote of foreigners, making it easier for the more corrupt people to have a larger say in things they would have little to no power. But since they have all these votes it affects the polls, ballot frauds, vote purchases, saloon influences, and supporting criminals.

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Strong blames immigrants for changing native morals and culture. Immigrants bring their beliefs with them corrupting popular native morals. These beliefs are carried on by other foreigners.

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The advertisement said that immigrants should learn English because they needed this knowledge to adapt to the new American environment. It also warned that if they don't learn English, America may turn into the same type of country that the immigrants tried to get away from.

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According to the advertisement, immigrants should learn the "American language" so that they could live more like an American instead of how they were before. The advertisement explains that they came to America to get away from their old country that they disliked, so they should become more like Americans so that it doesn't end up that way again.

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According to Ross the immigrants influence on American politics was that they increased intimidation at the polls, ballot frauds, vote purchases, saloon influence, and the support of the criminals.

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Strong blames immigrants for corruption of moral values held by the "native" population, saying that they create holidays out of holy ones and how immigrants traffic liquor more that anyone else. In actuality, most of these concerns stem from their Americans own religious practices, and how they expect immigrants to abandon their own religion and join theirs because it morally good.

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Ross believed that foreigners were too powerful during polls because of the large amount being able to overtake other Americans. The impact foreginers had resulted in vote purchases, saloon influences, and support from criminals.

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The disease that Strong blamed on immigrants was their ideas of sabbath, which turned holy days into holidays.

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Immigrants should learn the “American language” because they would not become American citizens and America would become like their home country, which they ran away from.

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According to grant the new immigrants were more poor,ghetto and unhealthy .

Grant saw the new immigrants endangering America because the whole tone of American life has been lowered by them

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1. According to Grant, the new immigrants had a large number of the weak and ill.
2.  Grant saw that these newer immigrant groups were endangering America because they would eventually affect the moral and social life of Americans.

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According to this advertisement immigrants should learn the American language so they can live like Americans. If they don’t live like Americans and speak english this country will soon be like the old country that they left.

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According to the advertisement, immigrants sold learn the  "American language" because it will make them more successful in America and if they don't they will be in the same situation as their old country.

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1. The new immigrants, people from Southern Europe and Poland, were different from the old immigrants, people from Nordic Countries, because the new immigrants were weak, broken, and mentally crippled.

2. Grant thinks the new immigrants will endanger America because they will bring diseases and new cultures and fill up jails, sanitariums, and almshouses.

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1. The new immigrants were different from the old ones because they were no longer exclusive members of the Nordic race. They were mentally crippled and caused the tone of the American life to be vulgarized.

2. Grant saw these immigrants as people who made America worse by coming here. He saw them as people who made America seem not as great as it once seemed. He saw that they were affecting the moral, social, and political life of Americans.

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1) Grant said that compared to the older generation, the newer generation of immigrants brought a lot more broken, weak, and mentally crippled people.

2) Grant said that the immigrants harmed American life by lowering the political, social, and moral aspects of it.

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1. The immigrants should learn the American language because it will help them with living in this country, if they don’t it will remind them of the country they tried to leave.

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Strong blamed the immigrants for turning "holy day into holiday" and disliked the idea of immigrants bringing their own beliefs and ideas to America, using liquor as source of blame for causing these different ideas in immigrants.

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Ross believed that since these new immigrants were not familiar with American politics, they could be exploited for easy votes by big companies who offered them pay, food, and housing.

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Ross believed that the foreigners had a large effect on the votes because of the population of foreigners. The impact foreigners had resulted in vote purchases, saloon influences, and support from criminals.

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According to this advertisement, immigrants should learn the "American language" because if not, America can develop into these immigrants' home country and develop the factors which drove them away.

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Ross believed that the immigrants in American politics caused things like ballot fraud. This is due to the fact that immigrants were easily swayed by "bosses" who gave them aid in exchange for votes at the polls.

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Every American city had a large vote of foreigners. The foreigners affected the polls, ballot frauds, vote purchases, saloon influence, and criminals.

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Ross explains that because there were a lot of foreigners, they were a big part of the votes. He explains that this causes the corrupt people to have a lot of say in different things such as, polls, ballots frauds, vote purchases, saloon influence, and support of the vicious and criminal.

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1. According to Grant, the new immigrants contained a large amount of weak and mentally crippled immigrants.

2. These new immigrants were endangering America by lowering the social, moral, and political life of America.

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1. an argument that would state is that he believes that Chinese would cause race antagonisms which would result to public disturbance.
2. the primary unstated concern is that nativists opposed against Chinese because he thinks they would overpopulation and take away all jobs from America citizens.

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Grant saw the new immigrants different form the old ones because they were
weak, broken, and mentally crippled.

2. They endangered America because they lowered the whole tone of American life, socially, and morally.

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1.According to Grant, New immigrants from the Mediterranean were low level people who were so different from the Northern European immigrants that they would bring down American society because they were useless.
2. Grants saw these new groups of immigrants as social, moral, and political endangerment to American Life

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1. The new immigrants were different from the old ones because they were no longer exclusive members of the Nordic race and they were also the weakest, broken, and mentally crippled of the races.

2. Grant saw these new immigrant groups endangering America because the whole tone of the American life was lowered and vulgarized by them.

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The disease that was strongly blaming immigrants was not a disease about their heath but was about their religion they brought with them along the way.

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According to Ross immigrants had more say in poles than nativists because of bosses. He explains that these immigrants had a huge say in polls, ballot frauds, vote purchases, saloon influence, and the support of the vicious and criminal.

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1) According to Grant, these new immigrants differed from earlier immigrants because they were weaker, broken, mentally crippled, and needed more attention and assistance in regards to physical and mental health.

2) Grant believed that these lower class groups diminished the intimidation and power of America. He saw them as almost offensive to the American title.

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According to Ross, The influence immigrants had on American politics and government was that since immigrant were simple-minded they would support corrupt bosses by being bribed and intimidated at the polls. Without the support of immigrants the bosses would have such power.

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The influence the immigrants had on American politics and government was bad because there were more fraudulent votes, so the “bosses” would have more power.

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Immigrants should learn the American language because they can learn and live like Americans and less like their old culture because they came to America for a reason not only to get away from their old country but to start to live a better life and live the dream.

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According to Ross, immigrants' influence on American politics and government was that they increased intimidation at the polls, ballot frauds, vote purchases, saloon influence, and support from criminals.

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According to Ross, immigrants had a strong and seemingly unfair impact on American politics and government. Because these immigrants were unfamiliar with America's system, they could be easily manipulated by unfit rulers. Therefore, Ross described them and accused them of ballot frauds, vote purchases, and in support of a criminal.

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1. According to Grant the new immigrants where different from the earlier immigrant group was that there was a large amount of immigrants that were weak or broke and mentally crippled
2.new immigrants would effect the moral/social life of Americans by making them feel lowered

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according to ross the immigrants influence Americans politics was that they increased intimidation at polls, ballot frauds, vote purchase, and support of the criminals

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1. An argument that was stated is the Chinese will start to protested if they were allowed to roam freely.

2. This group opposed Chinese immigration because they believed that the immigrants would take their jobs since they were willing to work for extremely low wages.

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The disease that Strong blamed the immigrants on was not health related but was more on the immigrants bringing their cultures and religions into America. With this it affected their American morals.

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Immigrants should learn the American language because so they can fit in more easier since everyone speaks that language. Also if they don't learn the American language then America will eventually become like their home country.

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1. To Grant the new immigrants were a large group of weak, broken, and mentally crippled of all races drawn from the lowest levels.

2. Grant saw the new immigrants endangering America because their jails, insane asylums, and almshouses will be filled. With that the government system would be lowered, they would bring diseases, and their cultures.

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To Ross the immigrants had power during polls because the large amount being able to vote. With this it resulted in vote purchases, saloon influences, and support from criminals. There were also political bosses that offered services such as a job, shelter, food, schools and hospitals in their neighborhoods for exchange of a vote.

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1. The nativist argument stated is that if Chinese are allowed in it will create conflict and disturbances.

2. An unstated motive could have to do with business, immigrants were happy to get any job even at low wages. Nativists could be concerned that allowing the Chinese in could lower wages and create less job opportunities.

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Strong was talking about the spread of different religious practices and values. He also talked about the spread of liquor trafficking.

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The advertisers argue that in order to fully become an American citizen you must learn the language, otherwise life will be much more difficult.

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1.An argument that is stated is that they would create race antagonisms which would result in great public disturbance.

2.A reason why they opposed the Chinese immigrants was because they were scared that they might steal their jobs and overpopulate them.

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According to Grant the new immigrants were from the lowest of the low, they were the weakest and the most broken.

Grant feared that these broken immigrants would lower and vulgarize the tone of overall American life.

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The disease was that they could corrupt the moral and thoughts of the Americans with their new religion and beliefs.

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Ross said that politicians could use immigrants to increase their own influence by bribing and intimidation.

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They should learn the American Language because it would give them a chance at redemption and it will give them more opportunities to grow as new citizens.

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1.  They weren't of the Nordic race and they were broken, crippled, and weak.

2. He says that they would vulgar the whole tone of social, moral, and political life of the Americans.

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He says that the immigrants would influence ballot frauds, vote purchases, saloon influence, and the support of the vicious criminals.

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1. An argument stated in this document is about how if the Chinese were allowed to enter the country free it would be a public disturbance to the people.

2. The unstated concern of the Chinese coming is that, he thinks because there are so many of them, it will overpopulate and the Chinese will take over the Americans jobs.

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The disease that was blamed on the immigrants had to do with their religion. He thought that the immigrants would change days to praise god into holidays. For example "holy days" to "holidays".

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The immigrants were told to learn the "American language" because people thought they would bring their old ways from their countries to America. People thought the immigrants should fit in and live like an American, by learning the language is a way they would do so.

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1. According to the document, Grant states, "the new immigrants (contain) a large number of the weak, broken, and the mentally crippled." He didn't think the new immigrants were as strong as the old ones.

2. Grant saw the immigrants endangering America because he thought the weak people would lower the American life, social, moral, and political.

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Ross believed that the immigrants would have a huge impact on voting in America. He thought the immigrants would vote for bosses who would pay them more. Ross was frightened by the fact that it could cause things like vote fraud or purchases.