Legislation
Fear of outsiders/foreigners
What is xenophobia?
This wave involved religious dissenters, enslaved people, and Native Americans.
What is the first wave of immigration?
Reason to come to a country. (Civil rights movement, religious freedom, Gold Rush, factory jobs)
The act of becoming a citizen
What is naturalization?
The first citizenship law in the U.S.
What is the Naturalization Act of 1790?
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
What is nativism?
The area that most immigrants came from in the 3rd Wave of Immigration.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
The name of the act/law in which the first numerical quota applied to immigrants to the U.S.
What is the Immigration Quota Act 1921 (1924 accepted too)?
An agreement between Mexico and the United States that allowed millions of Mexican men to come to the United States to work on, short-term, primarily agricultural labor contracts.
What is the Bracero Program?
This act removed racially based quotas and allowed for higher ceilings per country. It emphasized highly skilled workers and family reunification as basis for immigration.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
The ability of a Mexican immigrant to find work in New Mexico, bring their family over the border, and set up a life practicing Mexican tradition in the U.S. state is evidence of this kind of immigrant.
What is a primary immigrant?
What is Ellis Island in NYC?
Someone who is able to assimilate to only the degree which the dominant culture will allow.
What is a secondary immigrant?
An immigrant able to speak English and adopt American cultural values would still have difficulty gaining opportunities according to this theory of assimilation.
What is racial hierarchy theory?
This U.S. policy deported many Mexican immigrants and citizens during the Great Depression.
What is Mexican Repatriation?
The ability for Chinese & Irish to assimilate as nativist and anti-Catholic treatment grew in the second wave of immigration is evidence of this type of immigration.
Name a push factor for German immigrants in the second wave of immigration.
What is political upheaval/German revolutions?
The name of the department created in 2003 in response to the attacks on 9/11.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
Changing last names at Ellis Island is an example of this theory of assimilation.
What is the Melting Pot theory? (Anglo-Saxon conformity also accepted)
What immigrant legislation was repealed in 2017 by Former President Trump and reinstated in June of 2020 by SCOTUS ruling?
What is DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)?
A belief system and scientific study that emerges during the 3rd wave of immigration that contributes to feelings of xenophobia and nativism. Also known as "scientific racism".
What is eugenics?
The perceived “unwillingness” to assimilate, the influx of single men/women who sent back money to their families, and the obtaining of lower-skilled factory jobs describes this wave of immigration.
What is the 3rd wave of immigration?
The name of the department created in 2003 in response to the attacks on 9/11.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
What is 3%?