European Immigrants
Asian Immigrants
Mexican Immigrants
Immigration Restrictions
Education
100
Northwestern Europe
What region of Europe did most Europeans immigrate from in the mid 1800s?
100
Where did the Japanese first come to in America?
Hawaii
100
Most Mexicans immigrated to America because of?
the Mexican revolution
100
What immigrants were considered undesirable by the United States?
The illiterate, diseased, anarchists, and criminals
100
What types of schools did the immigrant groups form to provide general education for all?
Parochial schools
200
Name at least three reasons why Europeans immigrated to the United States
Religious persecution, Political persecution, Famine, Bad economy, More opportunities
200
What treaty between Japan and US limited the amount of laborers that could come but allowed wives to join their husbands?
Gentlemen's Agreement
200
How long did the Mexican revolution last?
10 years
200
What did the Oriental Exclusion Act prohibit Chinese immigrants from doing?
Prohibited anyone of Chinese background from gaining American citizenship
200
In what grade were students normally placed in regardless of their age?
First grade
300
Why did so many Irish farmers and their families immigrate to the United States?
The Irish Potato Famine
300
What was the ratio of chinese men to women at its peak
27:1
300
Most Mexicans found work where?
Railroads
300
What year did it become necessary for immigrants to take a literacy test?
1917
300
Why did many children not attend school?
They had to support their families and enter the work force.
400
What were the Germans who immigrated to the United States to flee political persecution after failed revolutions in 1948 called?
48ers
400
What system of fraud did the Chinese use to get people into the country?
Paper sons
400
How did most Mexicans get to the United States
Railroad or boat
400
Who founded the Immigration Restriction League?
Prescott F. Hall
400
What time period did public schools begin?
19th century
500
How were Western Europeans more able to assimilate to American culture than Eastern Europeans?
Western Europeans dressed and looked more American than Eastern Europeans and were less culturally distinct
500
What did the Japanese do to be successful in America
Worked as farmhands until they made enough money to buy their own land
500
What state received the most immigrants in 1910?
Texas
500
What was the limit percent of immigrants per country?
3%
500
What percent or number of immigrants received an education?
23% or about 3 million out of the 13 million foreign born individuals
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