Immigration and discrimination Flashcards
1
Q
How many immigrated to America in 1929?
A
150,000
2
Q
How many immigrated between 1850 and 1914?
A
Over 40 million (10% of the European population)
3
Q
How many of the 40 million immigrants actually get in?
A
Only 12 million, the rest are sent back
4
Q
Centralia massacre
A
American legion raids a ‘foreign’ IWW HQ. The wobblies shoot 4 legionaries dead.
5
Q
Leo Frank
A
A Jew in 1915 who was convicted by an all white jury of raping and murdering a girl. Was lynched straight after the conviction
6
Q
Immigrants were forced to live
A
in ghettos e.g. Hell’s Kitchen
7
Q
In 1917 a mob
A
forcibly deported 1,700 Mexican miners from Bisbee Arizona
8
Q
Texas rangers were known for…….
A
forcibly deporting Mexican ‘undesirables’ from the US
