Social Aspects Flashcards
How many immigrants moved over in the time period
10 million
What countries did they travel from
Holland Britiain Scandinavia Ireland Germany
Popular pull factor
Advertisements and lots of them showing the “American dream’
Incentives for immigrants
Low interest rates loans, classes in farming, building of churches and schools.
Why move from Britian
Agricultural and industrial depression
Why move from Ireland
Due to absentee land lords lands were mismanaged meaning agricultural decline lead to poverty
Why and who moved from Russia
Jews, facing persecution 1880 5000 1900 90000 resided in America
Nativist
Those who were from the first wave of immigration and were white disliked the new workers due then working for lower wages
Yellow peril
Advertised by newspapers lead to the chinese exclusion act 1882 those who were in the country could not get citizenship.
Ghettoisation
Same ethnic background lead to ghettos e.g. German newspaper and beer produced for the German population in milwaukee
Granger movement
1967 start of populism
NAWSA
National american women’s suffrage association 1890 angered at the fact African Americans had vote and they didn’t
Orange riots
1870-1871 tensions between Irish Catholics and protestants and Irish gangs terrorised Italian chicagoans
Scalawags
Southerners who worked with northerners
Carpet baggers
Northerners who wanted to work in the south but had betrayed them in the civil war
