Great Migration
What was the reason for the Great Migration?
The absence of Jim Crow laws and good job opportunities.
This famous statue greeted immigrants arriving in New York Harbor
Statue of Liberty
What was the Red Summer of 1919?
A pattern of white-on-black violence throughout the United States.
Where did most immigrants first settle when they arrived in New York?
Tenement neighborhoods or slums
How were immigrants seen towards the public?
They were viewed differently based on their culture and how educated they were.
Why did these immigrants pick New York to migrate to, and what did they learn when they got there?
New York State did not practice segregation by law, yet there existed discriminatory practices in the aspect of housing.
How long did most immigrants spend being processed at Ellis Island?
A few hours to a few days
What was the deadliest riot during the Red Summer of 1919?
The Elaine Massacre.
What made the neighbor hoods dirty?
In New York there was no sewers
What became a major issue after WWI?
the public showing Xenophobia
What part of New York were the African American immigrants confined to?
Harlem, New York
What test did immigrants have to pass to enter the country?
The Literacy test
Where specifically did the Red Summer take place in the U.S?
Southern locations as well as in the North, most notably in Chicago.
How did immigrant communities support each other?
Shared resources, community support, and the wives would be the care givers and have to deal with the filth.
Why doesn't national security favor immigrants?
They just see them as major threats and don't trust them
What were some major problems for the immigrants sent to live in Harlem?
The areas became overcrowded, leading to poor living conditions and higher rents.
What Two Acts were considered the "Quota Acts" that limited immigrants to enter a foreign country?
The Emergency Quota and Immigration Act
Where and when did the first riot occur of the Red Summer?
Millen, Georgia April 14 1919
Describe the housing conditions in immigrant neighborhoods
Crowded, limited sanitation
What made it possible for Congress to pass this legislation?
WWI
How did the discriminatory rules affect the housing of African American immigrants?
What has Ellis Island become once immigrants started to overcome country's with their arrival?
A detention center for trickle immigrants with problems and for others being deported.
Who was the person who was hung in Omaha, Nebraksa?
Will Brown
Explain how immigrant communities changed New York's cultural landscape
Created diverse, multicultural communities
What was the overall image of how immigrants were seen as in New York?
As a threat, uneducated, poor, and just doesn't want to be associated with them.