Vocab
What was the Industrial Revolution?
period in time in which there was a shift from manual production to machine-powered factory production
What group of people did the Chinese Exclusion Act exclude out of America?
What are the Chinese?
True or False: One of the reasons for migration was NOT because of higher wages.
What is False?
What continent did most of the immigrants originate from?
What is Europe?
What was the only group of people who were not allowed in America?
The Chinese.
people who enter another country in order to settle there
What are Immigrants?
After the potato famine in Ireland in the 1840s, what group of people traveled to America to escape the disease?
What are the Irish?
True or False: The great migrations during the time of the Revolutions set the stage for more people to settle in America.
What is true?
What is a characteristic of the Old Immigrants?
Came to American during the 1820s to the 1870s. Came from Northern/Western Europe, Were literate. Protestant. Came with a bit of money. Adapted quickly. Were familiar with democracy.
What act showed the true discrimination of America back in 1882?
The Chinese Exclusion Act.
What are Nativists?
people who opposed immigration and wanted to reserve the country for Native born White Protestants
What continent was the majority of the immigrants from?
What is Europe?
Why did many of the Irish immigrants come to America in the 1840's?
What is the Potato Famine of 1840?
What is a characteristic of the New Immigrants?
Came to America from 1882 to 1914. Came from Southern/Eastern Europe. Were Catholic, Jewish, Orthodox. Were illiterate. Came with little to no money. Excluded others and had a hard time adapting to the new life. Preferred the ways of absolute power within one person.
What were the Know Nothings against?
They were agaisnt Catholics and immigrants.
The act passed by Congress that restricted Chinese people to immigrate to America
What is the Chinese Exclusion?
After the Chinese Exclusion Act, who were put in to replace them?
What are the Japanese?
Name one of the causes for immigrants to come to America.
Economic opportunities, high wages, and religious freedom attracted many people from other countries/continents.
Civil unrest, severe unemployment, and/or hardships at home.
What immigration group consisted of very diverse religious groups?
What are the New Immigrants?
What were the opinions and goals of nativists?
They opposed immigrants and wanted to preserve the country for native-born, white Protestants.
What was the Know Nothing Party?
It was a political party that consisted of native-born male Protestants who were anti-Catholic and aniti-immigrants.
Name 3 different nationalities of the immigrants.
Germans, Irish, Scandinavians, Britains, Chinese, Greece, Italy, Poles, Russians, Japanese, Hungarians, France, and some from the South.
Name one reason why the Germans/Irish came to America.
What is civil unrest, severe unemployment, and/or hardships at home?
If an immigrant were to come during 1854, in what group would they be considered to be in?
What is an Old Immigrant?
What was the name of one of the riots of the Know Nothing Party?
The Bloody Monday.