Immigration During The Gilded Age

on December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams organized a group of men called the Sons of Liberty. They dressed up as Mohawk Indians. They boarded three ships in the Boston Harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. It took nearly three hours to accomplish this. The British Parliament passed the Tea Act on April 27, 1773 which was a import tax and it raised the price of tea to three cents per pound on all tea sent to America.

That 's about 180 calories(13). But finally, the day has come. The Nazi government here in Germany is being overrun today. Street by street, the Russians are taking over the city of Berlin. In just a few hours, the entire country will be in ruins(15).

Max Stevenson Francois, who is 28 years-old, was recently arrested for leaving the scene of the accident. He is currently being held in jail, and his bond is $75,000. Max hit 15 year-old Jailah Cross when she was crossing the street on Northwest 15th Avenue. Jailah 's 14 year-old brother witnessed his sister get hit by the car and told his mother. Jailah 's brother and mother witnessed the paramedics attempting to revive her.

Powers was charged with one count of hazing, and Wagner was also charged with marijuana possession. Each hazing charge has a maximum penalty of $500. Police depositions allege that Phi Gamma Delta pledges: Cameron Ewing, Hall Bryant, and Benton Jones were told to stand in a cooler filled with ice water and salt on September 14. Upperclassmen than asked the pledges questions to test their knowledge of fraternity brothers during the ordeal, which lasted between 15 to 20 minutes.

Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 to poor Scotts-Irish parents. Serving as a courier for the revolutionary forces at age 13, he witnessed the deaths of his family at the hands of disease and the British. Jackson, now an orphan, went to live with his uncles and study law. After later being admitted to the North Carolina bar, he became more rich and famous, joining the convention for writing a new Tennessee constitution. He was elected to the senate after serving two years as the first House of Representatives member from Tennessee, and resigned after just one year.

The Palmer Raids were led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. On November 17, 1919, the FBI raided the Russian Workers Union and arrested 200 people. A few weeks later, they reraided the same place and found a secret room that was hiding a bomb factory. The biggest raid happened on January 20, 1920. 30 cities were raided by government officials and thousands of immigrants were arrested.

Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas shooter, killed fifty eight people who had gathered along the Las Vegas strip for a music concert before shooting and ending his life. A statement from his brother to reporters stated that their father at some point was featured in the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Patrick Hoskins Paddock, their father got arrested in 1960 after robbing banks and was served with a 20 year jail term. Eight years while serving his term in jail, he managed to escape and was on the run until 1978. Reports provided by the FBI stated that he was to be considered harmful to the society (Kutner, Max).

Charles Weems was arrested in March 1931 at the age of nineteen, making him the oldest of the Scottsboro Boys. He was convicted of rape first in 1931, then again in a second trial in 1937. In prison, Weems suffered from tuberculosis and was stabbed by a prison guard who had mistaken him for Andy Wright. He was finally released in 1943.

The children of the orphan trains now are in their 70’s -80’s and there are approximately only 200 living today. Most tell of horrific stories of the lives they left behind. Most never knew that they were part of a “movement” or “history” until many years later.

On March 25,1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City was the deadliest business tragedy in the history of New York. Every morning 100,000 people would head off to work, some of the girls would be as young as ten years old. In Asch Building on the 10th floor was where the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was located. The people had to work up to 14 hours a day with a salary of 2 dollars. Out of the 100,000people there were 500 blouse makers.

Tuesday evening the Steuben County Sheriff 's Office Investigators and New York State Police Investigators began looking into the claim and an arrest warrant was issued at 1:00 this morning. Clayton was arrested around 9:00 while spotted leaving a hotel in the Town of Ithaca and was arraigned in Town of Caton Court, before being taken back to jail. "This is a misdemeanor charge, so the court will have him back here another date. He 's been remanded to the Steuben County Jail on half a million dollars bail. The rest of the case continues as it continues.

Jacob Riis was born in Ribe, Denmark in 1849 and he immigrated to New York in 1870. All he had with him while he traveled on a steamship to the United States was $40 and a locket with hair of the girl he loved. He took all sorts of jobs like “ironworker, farmer, bricklayer, salesman”.(Moore) These jobs allowed him to see the American urban environment. In 1873, he became a police reporter for The New york Tribune and dove into the untold horrors of Americans slums which were filled with crime and poverty.

Based on the evidence Speer was undoubtedly responsible and guilty in crimes against humanity, he was convicted to 20 years imprisonment because of his utilization as Minister for Production and Armaments in the consolidation of slave labour during the war effort. Although during the trials there was no explicit reference to his involvement as Chief Architect in the forced removal of Jewish citizens from their homes prior to 1942. The GBI resettlement department was formed in 1939 and headed by Dietrich Clahes, they were tasked in the matters of “relocation” of those citizens; historian Dan Van Der Vat presents an erased entry from The Chronik which was written in April 1941, “The Jew-flats rented from local landlords were cleared and the Jewish tenants were packed into Jewish living space on Jewish-owned land... In the period from 1.1 to 15.4.41 a total of 366 tenants in areas 4, 9, 12, 14 and 25 were required to resettle”.

On March 4, 1901, President William McKinley began his second term. He brought to Washington DC a New Vice-President, Theodor Roosevelt. In September he visited a fair in Buffalo, New York. While he greeted the public, Leon Czolgosz shot the president. McKinley died 8 days later of an infection resulting from the attack.

I do not think that the Ninetheenth-Century Immigrants were uprooted. Most immigrants that moved to America were trying to start and find a better life. They moved to America because there was a lot more job opportunities then their homelands. Some even came having the intentions to move back to their homeland once they had made a good enough living in America. The people that moved back to their homeland could start a better life with what they had earned in America.