To What Extent Were Economic Fears The Main Reason For The Changing Attitudes Towards Immigration In The 1920’s Flashcards
In 1918 what was the basic survival wage
What were immigration willing to work for
$745
$400
The 5 reasons of changing attitudes towards immigration
Economic fears
Social concerns
Fear of revolution
Racism
Isolation / great war
Why did employers love the new immigrant workers
They provided a cheap influx of labour increased employers profits
Easily taken advantage off
Why couldn’t America protest for more wages
Because immigrants were the strike breakers as they had no negotiation tools
Caused great resentment
Newspapers such as Chicago daily refused to say
America was built off of immigration
What did Hugh Brogan believe
Older clashes over race rose because of the government stopping from protesting for better pay and opportunities
Who lived. Ethnic ghettos
Southern and European immigrants
Why did immigrants stay within social groups
They spoke very little English and they were comfortable
What were immigrants viewed as by Americans
Criminals
Mafia
Purple gang
Why were us citizens suspicious of immigrants living in their own social groups
They feared that the immigrants were not using American culture
What was Francis Galton new science
Eugenics (1883)
What year did Francis Galton pioneer ‘a new science’ called eugenics
1883
Who pioneered a ‘ new science’ called eugenics
Francis Galton
WASPS
What is the opposite of capitalism
Communism
What are wasps
White Anglo Saxon protestants
What did wasps not want
Cross breeding
What did the Americans want removed from the country
Foreign ideologies removed from the country
Who was the us attorney general whose house was blown up in Washington DC
Alexander Mitchell palmer
Why were the USA concerned with Russians coming to America
They would bring there communist ideoligies
How many government officials were killed during letter bomb attacks
One
What was the red hunt
Saccoand Vanzetti were murdered and imprisoned
What was the Isolation policy
Americans won’t get involved in any European laws
Why was there fear within Americans during ww1
Because immigrants such as German nanationals might support the opposite side of what the Americans were on
What law was introduced 1921
1924
Reduction Of immigration
(Open door policy closed)
How many Germans were living in the us
8 million
After ww1 how many Americans were left jobless
9 million
Why were American veterans coming back from the war blaming immigrants
They thought immigrants had taken there rightful jobs
What was the 1882 Chinese exclusion act
No chinespeople were allowed to
Work
Enter
Access to American soil
What were Americans passionately committed to
Isolationist policy
