immigration

Question 1

NATIVISM

Answer 1

a defense of native-born People and a hostility to the foreign-born. Supporting policies that favor and preserve native-born “uniqueness” over foreigners

Question 2

MELTING POT THEORY

Answer 2

the immigration tsunami rolling over America Is not coming over from Eu, but from races of Asia, Africa, latin America →they are not melting and/or reforming- 16 million not originally from Europe, today that number is 80 million

Question 3

OLD IMMIGRATION

Answer 3

(1820-1850)German, Irish, English

Question 4

Chinese Immigrants

Answer 4

Came to american in search of work, brutally mistreated in construction of trans continental railroad and completely banned in 1882

Question 5

Japanese Immigrants

Answer 5

Put in internment camps as a result of the attacks from the japanese on pearl harbor. Despite the immigrants being americans, they were still treated as aliens.

Question 6

Naturalization act

Answer 6

1790: in order to be a citizen, you have to be white
- Anglo/Western European

Question 7

Alien and Sedition acts

Answer 7

1798: Limited the rights of citizen (like voting)
Gave Federal government the power to deport immigrants who were citizens with USA was at war with

Question 8

Old Immigration

Answer 8

1820-1850

Question 9

Anti-Catholic mob burns Ursuline Convent in Charlestown

Answer 9

1834

Question 10

Samuel Morse publishes Foreign Conspiracy

Answer 10

1835 Urged a passage of an immigration law that bans foreign-born Americans from voting
Alleges a Popish plot against the USA, develops morse code to defeat this plot

Question 11

Native American Association forms the Native American Party/Know Nothing Party

Answer 11

1837

Question 12

Construction of first transcontinental railroad

Answer 12

1863-1869

Question 13

Chinese Exclusion act

Answer 13

1882 Prohibited the immigration of chinese laborers for 10 years

Question 14

Open Door Policy

Answer 14

1921 All countries have equal right to trade with Chine

Question 15

Ozawa v. USA

Answer 15

1922 Ruled that Asian people are not white, and therefore could never be citizens
Affirms 1790 Naturalization act

Question 16

Open Door Policy ends

Answer 16

1924

Question 17

National Origins Act

Answer 17

1924 Bans all asian peoples
Reduces quota system to 2% of people living in US for immigration

Question 18

WW2 starts

Answer 18

1939

Question 19

Korematsu v. USA

Answer 19

1944 The Supreme Court decision upheld the federal government’s right to set aside civil rights protections in the name of “military necessity”
Targeted Japanese Americans, not German, etc.

Question 20

Immigration Reform Act: Ends racist quota

Answer 20

1965 System giving preferential treatment to Western European Immigration
Focused on family relations and skills