Graph
What is the X axis
Year
This group of Immigrants was the largest in the 1897 population?
German
The United States started to have more of what kind of business?
Factories
What Island did most European Immigrants come through to get into the US
Ellis
Moving to another country to live permanently.
Immigration
What is the Y axis?
Number of immigrants coming in a year.
An immigrant from this country wrote a letter about her families trip to the United States and the struggles she faced under British rule
Irish
These two new groups of people worked in factories
Children and Immigrants
Laws were created to help this group of people who worked in factories and were put into harms way and missed out on an education
Children
A group of workers that come together to fix their working environments
Labor Unions
Why is there such a huge decrease in immigration in 1915
World War 1
Poland
What are two of the three things labor unions were complaining about?
Long hours, little pay, and dangerous working conditions.
Restricted the number of Chinese immigrants coming into the United States by not allowing Chinese laborers to come in to the United States
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Treating someone differently because of a characteristic.
Discrimination
What is one reason that immigration increased in 1900?
Hard Times and Epidemics in Italy, U.S. Industrial expansion, and Anti-Semitism and draft in Russia
This group of immigrants was the smallest population wise in Syracuse
Chinese
What group of people worked to try and fix problems that they saw within factories and other jobs
Labor Unions
An agreement between Japan and the United States where Japan will limit the number of immigrants to the US and the US will not segregate Japanese students.
The Gentlemen's agreement
This island had mostly Asian immigrants that entered into the US
Angel Island
The major reasons for decreases are because of war and ________________________
Economic hardships
An immigrant from this country wrote a letter to an editor to complain about the discrimination that they faced in Syracuse.
Chinese immigrants
What was one thing that immigrants had that helped them when they came to the United States? (THIS IS STRAIGHT FROM THE STUDY SHEET)
Many skills and their own businesses
(US v Wong Kim Ark)
14th Amendment
Actively getting target or attacked because of a different characteristic
Persecution