{"id":801,"date":"2016-07-29T20:03:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T20:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=801"},"modified":"2019-07-13T19:33:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T19:33:06","slug":"anti-immigrant-cartoon-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/anti-immigrant-cartoon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Immigrant Cartoon, 1860"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_793\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/03047v.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-793\" class=\"wp-image-793 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/03047v-1000x898.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cThe great fear of the period That Uncle Sam may be swallowed by foreigners : The problem solved,\u201d 1860-1869, Library of Congress. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/03047v-1000x898.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/03047v-250x225.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/03047v-768x690.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/03047v-500x449.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/03047v-624x561.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/03047v.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe great fear of the period That Uncle Sam may be swallowed by foreigners : The problem solved,\u201d 1860-1869, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/98502829\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Library of Congress<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many white Americans responded to increasing numbers of immigrants in the 1800s with great fear and xenophobic hatred, seeing immigrants as threats to their vision of manifest destiny. This cartoon depicts a highly racialized image of a Chinese immigrant and Irish immigrant \u201cswallowing\u201d the United States&#8211;in the form of Uncle Sam. In the second image, the Chinese immigrant swallows the Irish immigrant. Networks of railroads and the promise of American expansion can be seen in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many white Americans responded to increasing numbers of immigrants in the 1800s with great fear and xenophobic hatred, seeing immigrants as threats to their vision of manifest destiny. This cartoon depicts a highly racialized image of a Chinese immigrant and Irish immigrant \u201cswallowing\u201d the United States&#8211;in the form of Uncle Sam. In the second image, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-801","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/801\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}