Issues with Immigration
What is the Gilded Age
Caused war and genocidal massacres, between the American army and Native Americans
What is Violent Conflict and War?
An act signed on May 6th, 1882, that prohibited the migration of all Chinese laborers.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
Who ran the Tammany Hall political machine in the 1860s?
What is Boss Tweed?
The trail that the Cherokee Nation traveled during the Indian Removal Act and lost nearly 4,000 of their lives
What is the Trail of Tears?
What groups of people immigrated to America to work in factories? (4 main answers)
What is Germans, Irish, Europeans, and Polish?
Organization that fought for ending aggressive alcohol consumption
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union?
An act that authorized the federal government to forcibly removed Native Americans from their native lands.
What is the Indian Removal act?
Act that taxed $0.50 and excluded each immigrant likely to become a public charge by seeing them as stupid
What is the Immigration Act of 1882?
What acts prohibited monopolies and foreign trade?
What is the Sherman Anti-trust act?
An act that authorized the US President to break up communal Native American tribal lands into small plots, resulting in 90 million acres of land being lost.
What is the 1877 Dawns Act?
Called for continuous westward expansion on the American Frontier and messed with "free land" that belonged to Natives
What is Turner Thesis?
Act that was put in place due to contamination in meats
What is the Meat Inspection Act of 1906?
The government forcing Native Americans into reservations
What is the Indian Appropriations Act ?