Opposition to Immigration Flashcards
Where did immigrants tend to reside together in cities?
Ghettos
What were ghettos?
Ghettos were large groups of a certain nationality who lived in one part of a city.
What were the perceived negatives of immigration?
Immigrants would take jobs for lower wages, and were thought to be responsible for increases in crime, drunkenness and prostitiution.
What were the consequences of WW1 for attitudes to immigration?
Hostility to German immigrants increased alarmingly, and the teaching of German was banned in several states. Americans began to fear entanglement in European affairs.
What is a WASP
A white, anglo-saxon Protestant.
What political belief was it feared that Eastern European immigrants would bring with them?
Communism or anarchy
Which department was introduced in order to oversee americanization?
The Federal Bureau of Naturalization
What were the four immigration acts?
The Literacy Test (1917), Emergency Quota Act (1921), National Origins Act (1924) and Immigration Act (1929)
What was the Literacy Test?
This act of 1917 banned all immigration from Asia, charged an immigration fee of $8 per person, and introduced a Literacy Test.
What was the Emergency Quota Act?
This introduced a quota system whereby three percent of the population of the USA in 1910 from a particular nationality would be allowed to enter annually.
What was the National Origins Act?
The quota was reduced from that of the Emergency Quota Act to two percent of the 1890 cencus.
What was the Immigration Act?
This 1929 act reduced immigration to 150,000 per year, and allocated Western Europeans 85% of the spaces. By this point immigration from Asia and Eastern Europe had virtually ceased.
