EARLY AMERICAN IMMIGRATION
What were pull factors to come to America?
Religious Freedom/Economic opportunity
This group of people came over due to the Opium Wars, famines, and political instability in their home country
The Chinese
These two Italian Immigrants were arrested and convicted of murder, but this was largely due to nativism at this time
Sacco and Vanzetti
During the 1950s, many women were expected to leave these positions after WWII ended and soldiers returned home.
Factory/industry jobs
This movement fought for women to gain the right to vote in the United States.
Women's Suffrage Movement
What groups came over to American during the 1600-1700's?
English and Protestant Immigrants
One of the push factors for this group to leave was the Potato Famine
The Irish
This racist group grew in power in the 1920s due to anti immigrant sentiment in the USA
The KKK
This 1950s ideal encouraged women to be homemakers, wives, and mothers rather than pursue careers.
Cult of Domesticity
This 1848 convention is considered the starting point of the organized women’s rights movement in the U.S.
Seneca Falls Convention
True or false: From 1790-1875 there was no exclusions to immigration
True
The name for the political machine that the Irish were widely apart of in NYC
Tammany Hall/Boss Tweed
This time of heightened paranoia happened in the 1920s as a result of Eastern Europeans and Russians coming to the USA
The Red Scare
This 1963 book exposed the dissatisfaction many suburban housewives felt and helped spark the modern women’s movement.
The Feminine Mystique- Betty Friedan
These two leaders helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and became key figures in the suffrage movement.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
What group of people was officially excluded from America?
The Chinese
The mountain range that the workers of the Transcontinental RR had to blast through
The Sierra Nevada's
The Chinese wrote a letter to this president about the discrimination they were facing
This 1966 organization fought for equal employment opportunities, reproductive rights, and an end to gender discrimination.
NOW- National Organization for Women
Ratified in 1920 after decades of activism, this constitutional amendment prohibited states from denying the right to vote based on sex.
19th Amendment
How many years did you need to live in the US in 1790 to become a citizen?
2 years
This political party was an "America First" party that had large a nativist platform and was against Irish immigration
The Know Nothing Party
The Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed in this year
1943
First proposed by Congress in 1972, this amendment aimed to guarantee equal legal rights regardless of sex but ultimately failed to be ratified by enough states.
The ERA- Equal Rights Amendment
This president publicly supported women’s suffrage in 1918, helping push the amendment through Congress.
Woodrow Wilson