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The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912
Topic: MemoryTopic: ProgressTopic: PeopleTopic: PowerTopic: Empire
Topic: People: Assimilation and the Crucible of the City
Toolbox Overview: The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912
Resource Menu: People
Text 1. The American Metropolis
Text 2. Coney Island
Text 3. Horatio Alger, Jr., Ragged Dick
Text 4. Lewis W. Hine photographs
Text 5. Jacob Riis, How the Other Lives
Text 6. Anzia Yezierska, Russians
Text 7. Two Wives
Text 8. Lee Chew, The Biography of a Chinaman
Text 9. Exclusion
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Text 10. Zitkala-Sa, Native Americans

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9.  Exclusion
- Immigration Restriction League, Publication 39, Extracts from "The Report of the Commissioner-
General of Immigration for the Year Ending June 30, 1903"
- U.S. House of Representatives, Report of the Select Committee on Immigration, 1892, excerpt (PDF)

    Men awaiting deportation, Ellis Island, 1902
Men awaiting deportation, Ellis Island, 1902
 
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Online Sources 1903 Report of the Commissioner: An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera. American Memory, Library of Congress

1892 Report: National Humanities Center

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Primary documents in History Matters, from George Mason University and the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
   Opposition to Asian Immigration (1)
   Opposition to Asian Immigration (2)
   Opposition to Asian Immigration (3)
   Defense of Asian Immigration (1)
   Defense of Asian Immigration (2)
   Rock Springs Riot (1885): Chinese worker's statement
   Rock Springs Riot (1885): white men's reaction

U.S. immigration policy, overview and resources from CloseUp

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, from CitizenSource

The Geary Act of 1892 (extending the Chinese Exclusion Act), from CitizenSource

Reports of the Joint Congressional (Dillingham) Commission on immigration, 1910-1911

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