Unit 6.7-8 - Effects of Migration/Causation in the Imperial Age

Question 1

Gender and ethnicities of most migrant workers

Answer 1

Men; Indian (indentured) and the Chinese

Question 2

Effect of migration on societies

Answer 2

They formed ethnic enclaves and cultural groups

Question 3

Effect of mainly men migrating to work on gender roles in home countries

Answer 3

While some men waited for another man to live with their families and assume the male role, in other societies, women took over the man’s roles and responsibilities. They had more power in decision-making, a life outside of their domestic/family life, and gained more autonomy/authority

Question 4

Remittance

Answer 4

Money from foreign earnings (often sent back home to one’s family)

Question 5

Ethnic Enclave

Answer 5

Clusters or neighborhoods of people from the same foreign country

Question 6

Where ethnic enclaves formed

Answer 6

In many major cities

Question 7

Difference between lives/work of Chinese immigrants based on where they lived

Answer 7

Their work ranged from working in garment or cigarette factories (San Fran./Cuba) to mining (guano in Peru), helping with public works projects (U.S./Peru), and farming (sugar plantations in Cuba/Peru & Americas). Many grew wealthy as business owners and traders.

Question 8

Some of the first indentured servants to be sent to British colonies

Answer 8

Indians

Question 9

How Indians were treated in South Afr.

Answer 9

Working on sugar plantations or constructing railroads, Indians often faced injust discrimination

Question 10

Who attempted to improve the lives of Indians living in South Afr.?

Answer 10

Mohandas Gandhi and his Natal Indian Congress through nationalism against British rule and the discrimination

Question 11

Labor system that replaced indentured servitude in Ceylon, Burma, and Malaya

Answer 11

Kangani system (recruiting others to work, such as having a whole family work rather than just recruiting one)

Question 12

Differences between Indentured Servitude and Kangani system

Answer 12

The Kangani system was less restricting and workers were with their family

Question 13

Areas of Caribbean culture that Indian migrants affected

Answer 13

Indians blended their traditions with the culture of other migrants, affecting national cusines, films, and music

Question 14

How did Irish men help the Ameri. Industry?

Answer 14

By creating the canal system (greater exploitation of coal, it could be moved further, and be sold for cheaper)

Question 15

Examples of how Irish immigrants affected Amer. culture

Answer 15

They spread their lively dance music, holidays/traditions like St. Patrick’s Day, and Catholicism

Question 16

Life of Second-Gen Irish in the U.S.

Answer 16

Oftentimes, they were white-collar (office), blue-collar (manual labor) workers, or stars of the new popular culture (like athletes) becoming very wealthy/powerful

Question 17

Reason many immigrants faced prrejudice in their new countries

Answer 17

Chinese immigrants faced prejudice from natives because they were willing to work for less

Question 18

Ways (2) that the USA attempted to regulate/limit Chinese immigration

Answer 18

An 1879 constitution prohibited many companies from hiring Chinese workers, any non-whites from becoming citizens, and encouraged cities/towns to remove/segregate Chinese in addition to the Chinese Exclusion act with banned Chinese immigration

Question 19

How Australia’s response to Chinese immigration was similar to the U.S.’s

Answer 19

They also passed many acts such as the Chinese Immigration Act, Regulation and Restriction Act, and Influx of Chinese Restriction Act, which all dealt with trying to limit and ban the diaspora of Chinese into Australia.

Question 20

How the quality of life for all peoples was effected because of the Industrial Revoultion

Answer 20

Shown by the growth in real wages and the increase in goods available for cheaper prices, standards of living increased

Question 21

Cause of international trade shifting from mercantilist economies to capitalism based ones

Answer 21

Overproduction was becoming a serious problem because countries could produce more goods so they opened up trade in order to sell more.

Question 22

Result of U.S. migration regulation acts

Answer 22

Some Chinese began to moving to Mexico, where the president Porfirio Diaz encouraged immigration

Question 23

The White Australia Policy

Answer 23

British parliament’s act against non-British immigration to Australia in order to “preserve it”

Question 24

Effect of the desire to increase exports

Answer 24

Economic and political rivalries amongst industrialized countries

Question 25

Real Wages

Answer 25

The number of goods and services that can be bought