Immigration

Question 1

First wave

Answer 1

Colonial Immigration 1680-1776
Indentured servants
Slaves
Scots-Irish
Germans
All discriminated against by the English
Settled along the East Coast

Question 2

Second wave

Answer 2

1820-1890
Religious Persecution and Political Unrest in Europe.
Economic Push – Pull Factors
Improved transportation
Work-Land-Gold
Germans, Irish, Britons, Scandinavians, French Canadians, Chinese, Swiss, Dutch.

Question 3

Third wave

Answer 3

1890-1921
Italians, Jews, Poles, Hungarians, Mexicans, Russians, Czechs, Greeks, Portuguese, Syrians, Japanese, Filipinos
Immigration as short term strategy to make money.
Younger, unmarried, travelling alone, mostly factory workers.

Question 4

Fourth wave

Answer 4

1965-present
320,000 immigrants per year.
System of preference: highly skilled workers, professionals, rich entrepreneurs.
Mexicans, Filipinos, Chinese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Cubans, Asian Indians…
Socio-economic bottom: relatives, domestic workers, chain migration.

Question 5

Reaction of Americans

Answer 5

Ambivalence: conflicting reaction.
Discrimination
Social Disorder: exploitation of immigrants
Hostility: Klu Klux Klan

Question 6

Chinese exclusion act

Answer 6

1882. Restriction on the amount of Chinese immigrants allowed
      105 Chinese Immigrants a year.
      Ended in 1943

Question 7

Undesirables

Answer 7

1892
Convicts, prostitutes, the Chinese, lunatics, idiots, those likely to depend on charity, polygamists, anarchists, other radicals, people with contagious diseases, the Japanese and illiterates.
not allowed in america

Question 8

National Origins Quota Act 1921

Answer 8

General limitation on all immigration.
European immigrants limited to 385,000 immigrants per year.
Each nation’s quota of new immigrant visas is equal to no more than 3% of the foreign-born immigrants currently residing in the US (according to the 1910 census)

Question 9

Trump restrictions

Answer 9

Trump wants increased deportation of illegal immigrants

Question 10

Social disorder

Answer 10

Exploitation of immigrants
Mixing of cultures
Widespread discrimination
Economic exploitation
Concern about “National Identity”
What is “American”?

Question 11

Geographical Isolation

Answer 11

China Town
Little Italy
Unforced assimilation: culture and language survives.