What Was The Effect Of Immigration In The 1920s

Question 1

What did the percentage of those who were foreign-born or with foreign-born in the US urban population rise to from 1910 to 1920?

Answer 1

in 1910 - 74%
in 1920 - 85%

Question 2

Why did many Americans act hostile to immigrants?

Answer 2

Immigrants would create competition for everything; jobs, housing, facilities of all kinds

Question 3

Due to the Great Depression and immigrations restrictions, where did most immigration come from?

Answer 3

South America, especially Mexico (as the quota system did not apply)

Question 4

Why did Mexican immigration increase in the 1920s?

Answer 4

• To fill the need for cheap labour in agriculture, mining and railroad building
• The status of many of the illegal immigrants meant that employers could exploit their fears of deportation, paying them very little and giving them terrible living and working conditions

Question 5

How many Mexicans were deported during the depression?

Answer 5

400,000 (though poor record-keeping and high number of unregistered immigrants)