USA: immigration

Question 1

what is the Open Door Policy?

Answer 1

allowing people to enter the USA with no restrictions

Question 2

how many people emigrated to the USA in 1919?

Answer 2

40 million

Question 3

what were the push factors for immigrants?

Answer 3

overcrowding in home countries
persecution
unemployment
WW1 wreckage

Question 4

what were the pull factors for immigrants?

Answer 4

land of the free
the american dream
prosperity

Question 5

what did people blame immigrants for?

Answer 5

increased crime, drinking, prositution

Question 6

why did people blame immigrants for their problems?

Answer 6

they were poor
different religion
fear

Question 7

what did the government introduce in 1917 to reduce immigration?

Answer 7

the literacy test

Question 8

what did the literacy test do?

Answer 8

immigrants wishing to enter the USA had to take part in a series of literacy tests to prove they could read and write in english

Question 9

why was the literacy test a problem for immigrants?

Answer 9

they could not afford English lessons to pass the test

Question 10

what fee was placed on the literacy test?

Answer 10

$8

Question 11

what did the government introduce in 1921 to reduce immigration?

Answer 11

emergency quota act

Question 12

what did the emergency quota act do?

Answer 12

allowed 3% of the immigrants living in america in 1910 into the USA

Question 13

what did the emergency quota act reduce?

Answer 13

Asian people

Question 14

what did government introduce in 1924 to restrict immigration?

Answer 14

the national origins act

Question 15

what did the national origins act do?

Answer 15

restricted immigration to 2% of the 1890 census

Question 16

what did the government introduce in 1929 to reduce immigration?

Answer 16

the immigration act

Question 17

what did the immigration act do?

Answer 17

restricted immigration to 150,000 per year

Question 18

how much of the 150,000 of the immigration was allocated to Europeans?

Answer 18

85%

Question 19

what was xenophobia?

Answer 19

the fear of communism

Question 20

what created the fear of communism?

Answer 20

the red scare

Question 21

when did a communist party form in america?

Answer 21

1919

Question 22

how many strikes were there in 1919?

Answer 22

3600

Question 23

what were the Palmer raids?

Answer 23

organised attacks against communists by the attorney general Mitchell Palmer

Question 24

why were the Palmer raids organised?

Answer 24

anarchists bombed the attorney generals home

Question 25

what did the Palmer raids do?

Answer 25

spread rumours about the red scare

people were arrested and deported via the soviet ark for their supposed communist views

Question 26

what did anarchists do?

Answer 26

planted letter-bombs in 36 well-known Americans homes

bombed the attorney general Mitchell Palmer’s home

Question 27

who are Sacco and Vanzetti?

Answer 27

blamed anarchists from Italy who were arrested for robbery and murder of 2 men in a factory

Question 28

when were Sacco and Vanzetti arrested?

Answer 28

1920

Question 29

what were the killers described as?

Answer 29

olive skinned

thin men

Question 30

why were Sacco and Vanzetti blamed?

Answer 30

matched the descriptions and had a gun

Question 31

what was unfair about their trial?

Answer 31

the judge wanted them to be guilty

Question 32

what were Sacco and Vanzetti found in their trail?

Answer 32

guilty

Question 33

When were Sacco and Vanzetti killed and how?

Answer 33

1927 - by electric chair

Question 34

why was the Sacco and Vanzetti case so important?

Answer 34

highlighted the unfairness of the american justice system
showed how intolerant america was
they were denied rights they were entitled to

Question 35

when did Sacco and Vanzetti’s trial begin and how long was it for?

Answer 35

1921 for 45 days