Unit 3: Vocab (all) Flashcards
French colony
New France
New Spain
New Amsterdam/New Netherlands
The legal process through which one becomes a US citizen.
Naturalization
Limited US citizenship to white people (western europe) and added a residency requirement. Required people to have lived in the US for at least 2 years.
Naturalization acts 1790
Required all naturalized people to give up all attachments to other countries. All titles were to be given up
Naturalization act of 1795
Inciting rebellion against the government
Sedition
Acts passed due to the imminent threat of war between America and France. Raised residency requirements to 14 years; authorized president to deport aliens; authorized president to arrest, imprison and deport aliens during war
Alien and Sedition acts 1798
Political ideology, government policy or political stance that prioritizes the interests and well being of native born people over immigrants.
Nativism
A period of starvation in 1845-1852 in Ireland. Potatoes were infected by a disease destroying the crop
Irish potato famine
Nativist political group that advocated for restrictions on immigration, stopping foreign - born from voting or holding public office.
Know nothing party/American party
Branch of Christianity. Most people who were immigrating were of this religion during 1845
Catholicism
high concentration of certain ethnic groups within a space (residential area or workspace)
Ethnic enclaves
Housing for immigrants, unhygienic, close quarters
Tenements
The theory that applies the theory of Darwinism (survival of the fittest) to economics, politics and sociology.
Social Darwinism
“New immigrants”
“Hyphenated american”
page act 1875
Chinese exclusion act 1882
rock springs massacre 1885
Xenophobia
A scientific theory (erroneous and immoral) around “racial improvement” and “planned breeding”. Movement aimed at improving genetic quality of human population through selective breeding and sterilization
Eugenics
The process of an immigrant to the United States becoming a person who shares American culture, values, beliefs, and customs by assimilating into the American nation.
Americanization
US’s first law restricting immigration based on immigrates’ political beliefs.
Immigration Act of 1903
Act that implemented a literacy test that required immigrants over the age of 16 to demonstrate basic reading comprehension in any language. Also created new categories of banned people and stopped people from people in the Asiatic barred zone from immigrating.
Immigration act of 1917 (literacy tests + “asiatic barred zone”
First red scare
National origins quota act of 1924
Bracero agreement, 1942
1965 immigration and Nationality Act
Family Reunification
Immigration Reform and Control Act 1986
Homeland Security ac, 2002
Secure Fence Act 2006
Muslim ban 2017
