Matthew frye jacobson biography of albert
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Johnson, Albert (1869-1957)
Albert Johnson rose from his position as editor of the Daily Washingtonian, based in Hoquiam, to become one of the most powerful congressional leaders in the United States. In 1913 he was elected to the House of Representatives as a Republican and served in nine succeeding congresses until his defeat in the 1932 election when Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Democrats were swept into power. Johnson's congressional career spanned 20 years, climaxing in 1924 with the passage of the Johnson-Reed Act, which applied a stringent quota system to American immigration policies, and is widely regarded as the most important piece of immigration legislation in U.S. history.
Youth in the Midwest
Albert Johnson was born on March 25, 1869, in Springfield, Illinois. He attended high schools in Atchison and Hiawatha, Kansas. He learned the printers' trade before embarking on his long career in journalism. During his youth he worked at a variety of newspapers around the United States, including the St. Louis Globe Democrat, the New Haven Register, and the Morning Post in Washington, D.C. Lured from a job at the Washington Post to Tacoma in 1898 with the promise of a job as managing editor of the Tacoma News, Johnson left Washingto
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Immigration in Lowell: New Waves of Nativism
Matthew Lavallee
(AM 250, Paper 3)
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The Chinese had no pocketsno place to carry "a pocket-comb, a folding foot-rule, a cork-screw, a boot-buttoner, a pair of tweezers, a minute compass, a folding pair of scissors, a pin-ball, a pocket-mirror...a fountain pen," or any other such American-made product. Moreover, the Chinese were hostile to all improvement. Yet late 19th-century Americans, driven by their fears of overproduction, fantasized about this China market that one American businessman referred to as no longer the old Far East, but our new Far West. Americans even invited Chinese immigrant workers to build their railroads across the Great Plains. Only when the work was done did Americans invoke the free white persons clause of the 1790 Naturalization Act to bar the Chinese from the privileges of American citizenship and launch a campaign of exclusion marked by blatant racialism.
Matthew Frye Jacobson (associate professor of American studies at Yale), in this beautifully written post-colonial synthesis of the origins of American imperialism, reminds the reader that for more than a century Americans have seen the world’s people as consumers of American goods and, when they immigrate, as America’s workers. Unprecedented industrial production fueled the expansionism of the United States, first, to China (and t