Immigration Stations
The immigration station that reinforces the immigrant paradigm.
What is Ellis Island
This violent event in 1929 was initiated due to sexual jealousy of Filipino men, who were perceived to be "stealing white women" and resulted in the death of one Filipino man.
What are the Watsonville Riots
This project is named for the date of the first arrival of Africans on American soil, sought to place “the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative
What is the 1619 Project
This was a mass movement of 7 million Black Americans from the rural Southern Untied States to urban areas in the Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970
What is the Great Migrations
In this case, the Supreme Court ruled (7–2) that an enslaved person who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional
What is the Dred Scott Decision of (1857)
The immigration station that rejected almost a third of all immigrations that passed through it
What is Angel Island
In eighteenth-century New England, outsiders could be “warned out,” provided with formal notice to leave towns if they had this status.
What is if they were deemed "Likely to Become a Public Charge" (ie. poverty)
The stage of the triangular trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade
What is the Middle Passage
Founded by Robert Abbott, this publication helped to advertise opportunities in the North to Black Americans
What is the Chicago Defender
This law was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830
The nation from which most immigrants to Angel Island were denied entry
What is China
These two groups were denied citizenship and characterized variously as “occupants,” “denizens,” non-citizens, and aliens
Who are Blacks and Native Americans
This was signed by Boudinot, Major Ridge and John Ridge calling for the emigration of the entire Cherokee Nation from Georgia to the western territories. Some questioned whether they were authorized to sign
What is the Treaty of New Echota (1835)
This actress became the first black performer to win an Academy Award for her role as Mammy in the epic MGM film Gone with the Wind (1939) and also played a pivotal role in fighting segregated housing in Los Angeles – and won a landmark decision in the Superior Court.
Who is Hattie McDaniel
This law required Chinese residents in the U.S. to carry special documentation—certificates of residence—from the Internal Revenue Service.
What is the Geary Act of 1892
The poem from which this quote was taken from: "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
What is the New Colossus by Emma Lazarus.
One way in which American women were rendered foreigners that did not apply to American men (in 1907)
What is through marriage to an alien. In 1907, Congress confirmed its dim view of women’s citizenship by passing a law that stripped American women of their formal citizenship if they married alien men. Thousands of native-born American women married to aliens found themselves literally converted into aliens overnight.
After hearing about how Cherokee were placed in unsanitary stockades in preparation for removal, this tribal leader petitioned the US military officials to allow the Cherokees to take care of their own removal requesting to be in charge of organizing and supplying the removal
Who is Chief John Ross.
In this amendment, Citizenship was unequivocally granted to African Americans in 1868
What is the Fourteenth Amendment
This was the country’s first immigration law that singled out an immigrant group for large-scale exclusion based on race
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The term for many Chinese who falsified documents after the earthquake of 1906 in San Francisco, to enter the United States
What are paper sons.
This established the Philippines as a commonwealth and provided for its independence in ten years so that as residents of an independent country rather than a U.S. territory, Filipinos would no longer have unrestricted entry to the United States
What is the Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934
This law was signed by President Andrew Jackson in 1830 authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
A landmark Supreme Court decision in favor of Birthright Citizenship that was initiated by a Chinese man denied entry to the United States
What is The United States vs. Wong Kim Ark (1898)
This law limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent (2%) of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia
The Johnson Reed Act of 1924