Migration Factors
These factors make people want to leave a place, such as war, lack of jobs, or discrimination.
What are push factors of migration?
This 1882 federal law banned most Chinese immigration to the United States and was the first major law to exclude a specific ethnic group.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
This word means trying to make Indigenous people give up their culture and become more like white American society.
What is assimilation?
This group formerly only did "domestic labor" until WWI, when the men went away to war and factory jobs needed filling.
Who are women?
A major effect of the Great Depression in Washington was a rise in this, as people could not find work or pay their bills.
What is unemployment?
These factors attract people to a new place, like better jobs, land, or safety.
What are pull factors of migration?
In this event, Tacoma leaders forced Chinese residents to leave town in 1885, marching them to trains and driving them out.
What is the "Tacoma Method"?
These schools took Native American children away from their families and tried to erase their language and culture.
What are indigenous boarding schools?
This industry in WA was vital to the war effort, providing materials for airplane frames and military buildings.
What is the lumber industry?
Some Washington residents during the Great Depression moved to other regions looking for fruit-picking and farm jobs, becoming these kinds of traveling workers.
What are migrant workers?
Better wages in canneries, lumber mills, and farms in Washington acted as these factors for Chinese, Japanese, Black, and Latinx migrants.
What are pull factors of migration?
This order, signed in 1942, forced Japanese Americans on the West Coast to leave their homes and go to camps.
What is Exclusion Order 9066?
These decisions allowed indigenous people to fish at their "usual and accustomed places".
What are the Boldt decisions?
The two biggest industries in WA during WWI were:
What are shipbuilding and aviation?
The economic crisis later known as the Great Depression started with this event that collapsed the stock market.
What is Black Tuesday?
Many Chinese workers came to the West for railroad and mining jobs; losing jobs and facing racism were these kind of factors that made some leave or move again.
What are push factors of migration?
This term describes when a government separates people into different schools, neighborhoods, or jobs based on race.
What is segregation?
This 1887 law broke up tribal lands into individual family plots and tried to turn Native people into farmers.
What is the Dawes Act?
When does the U.S. officially join WWI?
What is 1917?
In Washington, unemployed people built shacks on empty land and lived in these communities named after the President at the time.
What are Hoovervilles?
The decade after WWI where many Americans migrated to cities, listened to jazz, spent money, and enjoyed new inventions is called this.
What are the Roaring 20s?
Racial restrictions on where African-Americans could live was often called:
What is redlining?
This general, known for his assimilationist policy "kill the Indian, save the man" was in charge of the Carlisle Indian School.
Who is Richard Henry Pratt?
The full name of the 4Ls, a union of loggers that became the world's largest company union for a while.
What is the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen?
Many "Okies" moved to Washington from the Great Plains after this catastrophic environmental event.
What is the Dust Bowl?