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LOOKING BACKWARD
THEY WOULD CLOSE TO THE NEW COMER THE BRIDGE THAT CARRIED THEM
AND THEIR FATHERS OVER.
Source: "Looking Backward." Joseph Keppler, colored proof for Puck, 11 January 1893.
Reprinted courtesy of the Print Collection, Miriam and Irad. Wallach Division of Arts, Prints, and Photographs,
The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation.
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According to the evidence in the cartoon, what did some wealthy and middle-class people in the United States think about immigrants in the 1880s and 1890s?
- that U.S. law should not enforce racial quotas
- that immigrants who practiced different religions improved the U.S. economy
- that new immigrants were a threat to them
- that new immigrants should be able to speak English
- that unskilled laborers would be good citizens
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