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Unit 2: Immigration Flashcards

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What is a push factor?

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What are some “push” factors in other countries that made people immigrate to America?

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Persecution in old country
-Irish potato famine; Russia-massacre of Jews; Russia Revolution
Overpopulation in old country
-no jobs

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What is a pull factor?

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What were some pull factors in other countries that made people immigrate to America?

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Economic conditions in the US
 -in need of workers for jobs
 -owning land- "Homestead Act"
Immigrant letters
 -wrote home to families in old country to convince to move here
  --"Image of America"
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Where was the “Old Immigration”?

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Northern and Western Europe

  • Ireland, Germany, England, France
  • peaked in 1860s
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Where was the “New Immigration”?

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Southern and Eastern Europe

  • Italy, Poland, Russia, and Hungary
  • peaked in 1910
  • arrived in Ellis Island- NYC
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Where did China and Japan come?

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Came through “Angel Island”

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What was traveling in the ocean like?

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Long journey- sometimes lasting weeks

  • steerage
  • -terrible conditions
    • –no privacy, limited toilet facilities, poor food
  • -tickets were cheap
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Arrival at Ellis Island–

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  • Physical exam
    • -incurable sent back to homeland
  • Documentation/literacy exam
  • 2-3 hours average; though some spent weeks
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Immigrants settlement–

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Many settled where ethnic communities were already established

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Immigrants on the East coast–

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Big cities expanded; also traveled other places

-Buffalo, Chicago, Toledo, and Cleveland

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What kind of immigrants lived in Northern Toledo?

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Polish Town

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What kind of immigrants lived in Southern Toledo?

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Irish

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What are Ghettos?

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An area in big cities where one ethnic or racial group dominates

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What is an ethnic community?

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Same language and traditions

-Chinatown, Little Italy; Irish and German neighborhoods

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What is the steerage?

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The large open area beneath ship’s deck

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Where did immigrants living in urban areas live?

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Tenements

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What is a tenement?

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Low-cost apartment buildings designed to house many families as an owner could pack in

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What were tenements named as?

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“Slums” -dirty and run-down

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What other living conditions did people have to deal with in urban areas?

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  • open sewers- rats spread disease
  • pollution- soot from coal-fired boilers
  • poor ventilation
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What were some dangers to look out for in the urban areas?

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Fire
-even the small fire could quickly consume entire building
Diseases
-cholera, malaria, tuberculosis thrived

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What was The Great Chicago Fire of 1871?

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  • ended in 18,000 buildings burned
  • 250 dead; 100,000 homeless
  • property damages over $200 million (= to 2 billion today)
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Diseases–

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  • epidemics swept through big cities
  • children especially vulnerable
    • -NYC tenements: 6 out of 10 babies died before 1st birthday
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What did scientists believe would help people’s hygiene?

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-believed lack of ventilation and clean water help to spread disease

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1879 NY-law–

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-Required every room to have an outside window

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“Dumbbell Tenement”–

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-Each building narrowed in the middle and gaps on either side formed air shafts

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What did some cities build?

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-reservoirs or waterworks to collect clean water far from the city and filter out impurities

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1901 NYC-law–

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-required hallway bathrooms replace backyard outhouses

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How old was Jacob Riis when he immigrated to the US?

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21 from Denmark

30
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What was Jacob Riis profession?

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-A reporter for New York Tribune

31
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Jacob Riis had lived in poverty and wanted to ________________.

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-expose tenements

32
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Like Lewis Hine, what did Jacob do?

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-he was a photographer

33
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Jacob’s work helped to expose what?

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-the horrors of tenement life

34
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What did Jacob hope?

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-he hoped to generate public support for reforms

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What was the result of Jacob’s work?

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-NY state passing the nation’s first meaningful laws to improve tenements

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What were some reasons for coming to America?

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To escape
 -religious
 -political or social persecution 
New opportunities 
 -jobs
 -owning land
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What is the “melting pot” stand for?

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  • Metaphor used to describe the different ethnicities to become a new community
    • losing the identity of the native land- “cultural assimilation”
    • a phrase often used to describe this period of immigration
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What does “tossed salad” in reference to?

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  • different cultures mix, but stay the same

- celebrate differences and ethnicities

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What is the Nativist movement?

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it was a group of ant-foreigners that wanted to preserve “American Identity”

40
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What did the anti-foreigners believe in?

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Manifest Destiny

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What is Manifest Destiny?

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the idea that U.S. has to expand democracy and American way of life

42
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Racial superiority–

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W.A.S.P.

-white, anglo, saxon, protestant

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What were Chinese Immigrants first admired for?

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their work ethic, but soon seen as competition for jobs- turned into racial reasons

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How many Chinese Immigrants come to the U.S.?

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25 million came; they helped to build the Transcontinental railroad

45
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Labor unions did what to the Chinese Immigrants?

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Fought hard to exclude them but Chinese would still except lower wages

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Americans felt that the Chinese Immigrants were “_____________” of being Americans.

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not worthy

47
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What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?

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prevented Chinese laborers form entering the country

48
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Who funded the Chinese Exclusion Act?

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AFL- Gompers

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How many times was the Chinese Exclusion Act renewed before it became permanent?

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two times (in 1892 and in 1902)
   -not appealed until 1943
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What was it like for Japanese Immigrants coming to the U.S.?

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  • racial tensions similar to Chinese

- San Fran school board ruled that all Japan and Korean children attend separate schools

51
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What did the Japanese government do after San Fran made this policy?

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condemned the voice because it violated an 1894 treaty giving Japanese right to enter US freely

52
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Because of this controversy between the Japenese and Americans, what happened?

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it threatened to become an international crisis

53
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What was President Theodore Roosevelt’s compromise with the Japanese government?

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The Gentleman’s Agreement 1907

54
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What was the Gentleman’s Agreement?

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Not an official government document, but called for San Fran to end school policy and for Japan to stop issuing passports to laborers

55
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Did the Gentleman’s Agreement make everyone happy?

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No, Anti-Japanese feelings continues through WWII

internment camps

56
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Who was part of the Immigration Restriction League?

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anti-Catholics and Europeans

57
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What did the Immigration Restriction League request?

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wanted stricter literacy tests

  • MUST be able to read/write in English
  • vetoed by three presidents
58
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What reforms were made to help the needy?

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The Social Gospel Movement

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What was the Social Gospel Movement?

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  • tried to apply the teachings of Jesus directly to society
  • focused on gospel ideals of charity and justice-especially seeking labor unions
  • instead of blaming immigrants for problems they tried to prevent the cause of the problems
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Many middle-class were shocked by poor __________ and __________ conditions.

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working and living

61
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What did the middle-class want for the needy?

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felt that prosperous Americans should help the less fortunate; thousands joined groups to help society

62
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What is the Settlement Movement?

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social workers moving to live in the same neighborhoods as the poor to help them in the best possible way

63
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What was built in the middle of poor neighborhoods?

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“community centers” that offered social services

64
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What did Jane Adams do in Chicago?

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built a “Hull House”

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what did neighbors attend in the community center?

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cultural events, classes; child-care centers, playgrounds, summer camps for children; health care clinics

66
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What was launched that later became the formation of many reforms?

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investigations of city economic, political and social conditions

67
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What did the Settlement Movement effect?

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places around the country had settlement houses built

68
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How many settlement houses were built by 1910?

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400

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