Vocabulary
What is Prosperity?
Is a central part of the American experience.
What is Immigration?
Most of the newcomers lived in run-down and overcrowded apartment buildings
What is tenements
Not all ________________ welcomed new immigrants.
Who are Americans.
1882, Congress passed the _______________________, barring this ethnic group in it entirety.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
Able to read or write.
What is Literate
The so-called "Old Immigration" up until the mid 1800s brought thousands of ____________ and __________ people to the new world.
Who are the Irish and German?
Individuals earned enough income to send to their families and return to their former lives.
Who is "birds of passage"
Laborers often treated their new competition with _________________.
What is hostility?
____________________ immigration as restricted by executive agreement.
What is Japanese immigration
Extreme physical or mental pain
What is torment?
Form of government, in which the population votes for representatives to serve their interests in legislative, or law-making, branches of government.
What is representative democracy?
Chinatown, Greektown, or Little Italy.
What is ethnic enclaves?
Many religious leaders were awestruck at the increase of non-__________________________ believers.
What are non-protestant
These two Asian groups were the only ethnicities to be completely excluded from America.
Who are the Chinese and Japanese immigrants
A particular government.
What is a Regime?
Branch of Christianity that is distinct from Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.
What is Protestantism?
25% of European immigrants of this time had no intentions of becoming?
Who are American citizens?
Believe that people of mixed ethnic backgrounds should not reproduce.
Who are racial purists
In 1917, Congress required the passing of a _______________ to gain admission.
What is a literacy test?
Extremely poor.
What is Destitute?
1870s to 1900, was an era marked by rapid economic growth and many social problems that were masked by the wealth of industrial and corporate leaders.
What is the Gilded Age?
Many sought freedom from torment.
Who are Jewish immigrants?
_______________ lobbied successfully to restrict the flow of immigration.
Who are nativists?
In 1924, the door was shut to millions by placing an _________________________ on new immigrants based on ethnicity.
What is an absolute cap?