To What Extent Were Economic Fears The Main Reason For The Changing Attitudes Towards Immigration In The 1920’s

Question 1

In 1918 what was the basic survival wage
What were immigration willing to work for

Answer 1

$745
$400

Question 2

The 5 reasons of changing attitudes towards immigration

Answer 2

Economic fears
Social concerns
Fear of revolution
Racism
Isolation / great war

Question 3

Why did employers love the new immigrant workers

Answer 3

They provided a cheap influx of labour increased employers profits
Easily taken advantage off

Question 4

Why couldn’t America protest for more wages

Answer 4

Because immigrants were the strike breakers as they had no negotiation tools
Caused great resentment

Question 5

Newspapers such as Chicago daily refused to say

Answer 5

America was built off of immigration

Question 6

What did Hugh Brogan believe

Answer 6

Older clashes over race rose because of the government stopping from protesting for better pay and opportunities

Question 7

Who lived. Ethnic ghettos

Answer 7

Southern and European immigrants

Question 8

Why did immigrants stay within social groups

Answer 8

They spoke very little English and they were comfortable

Question 9

What were immigrants viewed as by Americans

Answer 9

Criminals
Mafia
Purple gang

Question 10

Why were us citizens suspicious of immigrants living in their own social groups

Answer 10

They feared that the immigrants were not using American culture

Question 11

What was Francis Galton new science

Answer 11

Eugenics (1883)

Question 12

What year did Francis Galton pioneer ‘a new science’ called eugenics

Answer 12

1883

Question 13

Who pioneered a ‘ new science’ called eugenics

Answer 13

Francis Galton

Answer 14

WASPS

Question 15

What is the opposite of capitalism

Answer 15

Communism

Question 16

What are wasps

Answer 16

White Anglo Saxon protestants

Question 17

What did wasps not want

Answer 17

Cross breeding

Question 18

What did the Americans want removed from the country

Answer 18

Foreign ideologies removed from the country

Question 19

Who was the us attorney general whose house was blown up in Washington DC

Answer 19

Alexander Mitchell palmer

Question 20

Why were the USA concerned with Russians coming to America

Answer 20

They would bring there communist ideoligies

Question 21

How many government officials were killed during letter bomb attacks

Answer 21

One

Question 22

What was the red hunt

Answer 22

Saccoand Vanzetti were murdered and imprisoned

Question 23

What was the Isolation policy

Answer 23

Americans won’t get involved in any European laws

Question 24

Why was there fear within Americans during ww1

Answer 24

Because immigrants such as German nanationals might support the opposite side of what the Americans were on

Question 25

What law was introduced 1921
1924

Answer 25

Reduction Of immigration
(Open door policy closed)

Question 26

How many Germans were living in the us

Answer 26

8 million

Question 27

After ww1 how many Americans were left jobless

Answer 27

9 million

Question 28

Why were American veterans coming back from the war blaming immigrants

Answer 28

They thought immigrants had taken there rightful jobs

Question 29

What was the 1882 Chinese exclusion act

Answer 29

No chinespeople were allowed to
Work
Enter
Access to American soil

Question 30

What were Americans passionately committed to

Answer 30

Isolationist policy