Document 18.2 “The Stranger at Our Gate,” 1899
“The Stranger at Our Gate,” 1899
Critics of late-nineteenth-century immigration often relied on the germ theory of disease in their arguments for stricter immigration laws. However, nativist objections to immigrants went far beyond issues of public health. According to nativists, immigrants were sources of both biological and cultural “contamination.” In the following cartoon, “The Stranger at Our Gate,” the “germs” carried by immigrants are not limited to those associated with disease.
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