Immigration Flashcards
1
Q
xenophobia
A
scared of immigrants coming in
2
Q
Literacy Test
A
- 1917
- Eastern Europeans couldn’t afford it so found it hard to pass
- sent back if didn’t pass
3
Q
Emergency Quota Act
A
- 1921
- reduced to 357000 a year
- only 3% of total population of an overseas country could enter
4
Q
National Origins Act
A
- 1924
- 150000 per year
- quota to 2%
- not allowed if from Asia
5
Q
A. Mitchell Palmer
A
- Attorney General 1919
- accused of creating Red Scare for more votes
6
Q
accusation Sacco and Vanzetti
A
- Italian immigrants
- accused of double murder and robbery of $15776
- scattered pins whilst getting away
- followers of anarchist Luigi Galleani
7
Q
Sacco and Vanzetti trial
A
- no connection to event
- 107 witnesses claiming they’d seen them somewhere else
- Judge Webster Thayer made anti-Italian jokes throughout
- electrocuted at Charleston prison 1927
8
Q
Palmer Raids
A
- arrest and send home communists
- 1919, arrested 1000 suspected communists
- no proof they had ever done anything violent
9
Q
open door policy
A
allow people from all over the world without restriction
10
Q
melting pot
A
people from all different backgrounds blending into one American culture
