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UNITED STATES HISTORYSECTION IITotal Time – 45 MinutesQuestion 1 (Document-Based Question)It is suggested that you spend 10 minutes reading the documents and 35 minutes writing your response.Note: You may begin writing your response before the reading period is over.Evaluate the relative importance of different causes of the changes in public opinion and government policies toward immigration in the period from 1850 to 1945.Document 1Source: Platform of the American Party, June 5, 1855...The cultivation and development… of passionate attachment to our country, its history, and its institutions...resistance to the aggressive policy and corrupting influence of the Roman Catholic Church in this country…The advancement to all political office...of those only who do not hold allegiance...to any foreign power...and who are American by birth, thus fulfilling the maxim “Americans only shall govern America...Document 2Source: National People’s Party platform, 1892, Expression of Sentiments Resolved, That we condemn the fallacy of protecting American labor under the present system, which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal classes of the world and crowds out our wage-earners; and we denounce the present ineffective laws against contract labor, and demand the further restriction of undesirable emigration. Document 3Source: Cartoon for the article “An Alien Anti-Dumping Bill,” The Literary Digest, May 1921Document 4Source: Bartolomeo Vanzetti, to Judge Thayer upon being sentenced to death, April 9, 1927We were tried during a time that has now passed into history. I mean by that, a time when there was . . . resentment and hate against the people of our principles, against the foreigner, against slackers, and it seems to me—rather, I am positive, that both you and Mr. Katzmann [have] done all . . . [that was] in your power in order to work out, in order to agitate, still more the passion of the juror, the prejudice of the juror, against us. . . . But my conviction is that I have suffered for things that I am guilty of. I am suffering because I am a radical and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian and indeed I am an Italian; I have suffered more for my family and for my beloved wife than for myself. . . .Document 5Source: Sections from “The Emergency Farm Labor Supply Program Agreement,” July 23, 19422. Mexicans entering the United States as a result of this understanding shall not suffer discriminatory acts of any kind in accordance with the Executive Order No. 8802 issued at the White House June 25, 1941 5. Mexicans entering the United States under this understanding shall enjoy the guarantees of transportation, living expenses, and repatriation established in Article 29 of the Mexican Labor Law.Contracts - will be made between the employer and the worker under the supervision of the Mexican Government. (Contracts must be written in Spanish)(1) Wages to be paid to the worker shall be the same as those paid for similar work to other agricultural laborers in the respective regions of destination; but in no case shall this wage be less than 30 cents per hour. ................
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