After American Revolution
Song by Kathleen O'Neil
After the American Revolution was won, discrimination against the Irish began. Scot-Irish could not receive job opportunities or go into certain locations because of the signs that stated: "No Irish Need Apply."
This political cartoon from the 1860s is captioned, "The great fear of the period—that Uncle Sam may be swallowed by foreigners: The problem solved." The illustration depicts Uncle Sam, an Irish man, a Chinese man, and a railroad. It refers to the flood of immigrants for cheap labor to build the transcontinental railroad and to the prejudices against them in the United States
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