1. Read the following claim:
Challenges such as nativism is one area that affected immigrants and other Americans in the late 19th and early 20th century.
2. Read the following document:
In 1901, the San Francisco Building Trades Union held a convention out of concern that Chinese workers would take the jobs of white American workers. The following document was adopted as a recommendation to continue or strengthen existing exclusion and restriction laws. This document discusses the many perceived differences between the two groups and argues against admitting Chinese to the country permanently. This excerpt is focused primarily on what was said about effects on labor and trade.
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“...Protection For American Labor. We respectfully represent that American labor should not be exposed to the destructive competition of aliens who do not, will not, and can not take up the burdens of American citizenship, whose presence is an economic blight and a patriotic danger. It has been urged that the Chinese are unskilled and that they create wealth in field, mine, and forest, which ultimately redounds to the benefit of the white skilled workingman. The Chinese are skilled, and are capable of almost any skilled employment. They have invaded the cigar, shoe, broom, chemical, clothing, fruit canning, match making, woolen manufacturing industries, and have displaced more than 4,000 white men in these several employments in the city of San Francisco. ... Our opponents maintain that the admission of the Chinese would cause an enlargement of our national wealth and a great increase of production; but the distribution of wealth, not its production, is to-day our most serious public question. In this age of science and invention the production of wealth can well be left to take care of itself. It is its equitable distribution that must now be the concern of the country.
3.Reply with by citing evidence and placing in quotations (“) exact from the above document that shows What kinds of challenges did immigrants face in America?