1. Immigration Flashcards
1
Q
What year did America gain independence
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1776- ‘Declaration of Independence’
2
Q
Government
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- 1787= Constitution signed –> America is Federal State made of state governments.
3
Q
Slavery
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Abolished in North, still in South with Jim Crow laws
4
Q
Pull Factors
A
- jobs
- US BIll of Rights= 10 freedoms
- Higher Pay
- Religious Freedom
5
Q
Push Factors
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- Persecution of certain religions/minority groups
- Poverty
- Class systems
- Overcrowding
6
Q
Open door policy
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-Started 1899
- anyone can enter, no restrictions
7
Q
Ellis Island
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immigrants processed for health+other factors to be accepted or rejected
8
Q
Rejection
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- By health diseases
- Not passing Literacy test (1917)
People sent back home then
9
Q
Melting Pot
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- Native Americans
- Hispanics
- Africans
- Asians (west coast for construction)
- WASPS (North + Western Europe with high status)
- New Immigrants (most Jews or Catholics, escaping hard life)
10
Q
WW1 Effects
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- Resources export- Wheat= 763.4mln to 1025.8mln 1914-1917
- Munitions export
- Yet end of war, demand falls
11
Q
End of War
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- unemployment
- low wages
- good price doubles
12
Q
Isolationism
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Stay away from European issues
13
Q
Change of attitude to immigrant
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- taking over of jobs
- difference of culture, religion
- pride
- unwanted ideas e.g. communism
- They’re seen violent
14
Q
Literacy Act
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- 1917
- reading and writing tests
- 40 word passage read
15
Q
Emrgency Quota Act
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- 1921
- 3%of overseas population allowed to enter
- WASPS favoured, not new immigrants
16
Q
National Origins Act
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- 1924
- Quota reduced to 2%
17
Q
Immigration Cap
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- 1929
- 150000 places a year
- No Asians
- WASPs favoured
18
Q
Red Scare
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- fear of communism (red)
- Jan 1919 Germany= Communists trying to get power
- 1917 Russia= Bolshevik Revolution
- any new political ideas seen as communism now
- ideas seen as from Eastern Europe
19
Q
Strikes
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- against poor working conditions, low wage
- 1919= 3600 strikes
- strikes however falsely assumed for communism + revolution
- a strike in Seattle failing –>assumed communism + more unemployment
20
Q
Palmer Raids
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- 1919= anarchists grouips bombing places (inludihg Mitchell Palmer home)
- 1920= arrests made by Mitchell Palmer (attorney gen)
- raids were illegal- Jews, Catholics, Balack people, innocents arrested + 6000 suspected communists
21
Q
Soviet Ark
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Ship on which 100s of Russians sent back after Palmer Raids
22
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Sacco and Vanzetti Case
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- 5th May 1920= men arrested on charges of Fred Parmenter murder + security guard
- May 1921= 45 day trial
- July 1921= guilty Verdict
- 24 August 1927= Execution on electric chair
- 1970s= both later pardoned + mistrial
- both men discriminated + targetted for anarchism
