Immigaration Quiz🚢 Flashcards
Why did they want children to work??
They are cheap labor
Three reasons parents wanted their kids to work..
- Their families needed the money
- They believed it built character
- They believed that once kids learned to read, write, and basic math, they were educated enough
Jobs for boys only
-breaker boys
-newsies
-cigar boys
Jobs for boys and girls
Piece workers
Agriculture, picking tobacco
Mississippi Shrimp Pickers
Oyster plant
Mother Jones
Union leader who worked to improve the lives of workers, especially children
An organizer for united mine workers
Traveled to mining camps and gave fiery speeches for better conditions and pay
Fair labor standards act
Saying u have to be older for jobs
And better working conditions
Old immigrants
Immigrants from northern and Western Europe
1840s-1890
Ireland Great Britain and Germany
New immigrants
Southern and Eastern Europe
Late 1800s
Italy Poland and Hungary
Push factors definition
Factors that cause ppl to move
Four main Push factors
- Population growth
- Hunger
- scarcity of arable land
- Religion
Pull factors definition
Attractions that draw ppl to a certain place
Four main pull factors
- Free democratic society
- Jobs
- Natural resources
- “American letters”
Steerage
Area below the ships deck where steering mechanisms were located
Ellis island
Immigration island of the east
Built in 1892
Steps of Ellis island
- Six second exam
- Physical exam
- eye exam
- 29 ? Interview
What letter did you not want to be marked with at ellis island ?
e
Foreign act 1882
Illegal for US employers to import foreigners as contact laborers
What precent were deported at Ellis island
2%
Tenements
Poorly built overcrowded apartment buildings
Benevolent societies
Aid organizations offer immigrants help to the sick, unemployed
Settlement houses
Community center that provides a lot of services to the poor
What did many immigrants do
Help on to their old customs and way of life, it was easier for kids to become “American”
What was the main tool of assimilation
education
Why did Americanization happen
Because ppl felt threaten by the immigrants
Nativism
Policy of favoring the interests of natural born Americans
1894 immigration restriction league
Wanted to limit the immigration forcing immigrants to take a literacy test
Stoop labor
Jobs many won’t do
The Chinese were willing to …
Work for less money
(This created tension between working class whites and the Chinese)
Chinese exclusion act of 1882
First time the US had restricted immigration based solely on race
Prevented Chinese from becoming citizens
Only allowed a little bit of Chinese to enter
Angel island
The immigration island of the west
Which immigration island was worse
Angel island
At Angel island a failed iterview could end up with
Detained unsanitary conditions
