Immigration
How many foreigners immigrated to the US between 1900 and 1915?
15,000,000+
What did immigrants increase?
Potential economic growth
330 million people/930% of the population at the time)
What is 1 positive outcome of urbanization
- Economy eventually improved
- More health services became available
- Education and employment opportunities increased
- Cultures and traditions were shared
What were the laws called that aimed to keep blacks seperate from Whites?
Jim Crow Laws
What countries in Europe were many immigrants from?
Italy, Poland, and Russia
What did US citizens believe immigrants would do?
Take their jobs, hurt the poor, increase the crime rate, and and increase economic inequality
What increased with urbanization?
Poverty
What is 1 negative outcome of urbanization?
- Energy consumption was an all-time high
- Overpopulation induced issues such as unemployment and a decrease in sanitation
- Many people were left homeless
- Noise and traffic jams occurred more often
This was administered to anyone who could not prove a 5th Grade education
Literacy Test
What did some immigrants seek?
Religious freedom
What were worries US citizens had?
Immigrants wouldn't be patriotic enough and the immigrants were spies for their native countries
What was an effect of the increase of energy use?
Pollution which made human health decline greatly.
Wha did 1/3 of the people living in cities suffer from?
Starvation
People had to pay this in order to vote?
Poll Tax
What was the most popular destination to immigrate?
New York
What rose with the increase of of immigration throughout the late 19th and early 20th century?
Racial hostility and anxiety
Higher crime rates, prostitution, and drug abuse
By 1910, what percent of the population was made up of immigrants in New York?
70%
What were reasons Ellis Island would reject immigrants from becoming citizens?
Homosexuality, poverty, or disease
What were two negative results of overpopulation?
Unemployment and decrease in sanitation