Colonial Era Immigration
This country had the most immigration to the colonies in the Colonial era
England
Between these years, what European country had the most amount of immigrants?
The Irish represented 31% of all immigration
During this time, 27 million immigrants to the midwest came mostly from Western and northern Europe OR Southern and Eastern Europe?
Southern and Eastern Europe
When did Ellis Island open and in what harbor?
1892 in New York harbor
The California Gold Rush created a huge demand for what, which many Chinese helped to fill.
labor
Many immigrants had their passage to the colonies paid for because they came to the colonies as...
indentured servants
This revolution led many to leave Europe and emigrate to the United States
Industrial Revolution
Political leaders feared that these new what or who could be easily manipulated, so they campaigned against increased immigration.
immigrants
Ellis island closed in 1954. By that time, how many immigrants had passed through its doors?
12 million
The Chinese worked in mines, operated laundries, restaurants,and general stories and helped to build these across the United States
Railroads
People who followed this Christian religion were sometimes banned from settling in certain colonies or taxed because of their beliefs.
Catholic
This island state had a significant influx of labor from China, Japan, and the Philippines .
Hawaii
A Irish famine caused by a blight to this vegetable led t many immigrants being pushed from their country in search of a better life.
Potato
Migrants often were pushed out of their country because of these two reasons beginning with the letter "P"
poverty and persecution
Politicians and labor leaders blamed economic problems on the Chinese accusing them of doing what?
taking their jobs and lowering wages (either answer ok)
One reason slavery increased was because the need for this for the growing agricultural economy in tobacco and cotton.
labor
Catholic Germans and Irish were discriminated against by this political party who got their name b/c when asked about it, they were supposed to say what?
"I Know Nothing". or the "Know Nothing Party"
Anti-German propaganda during WWI led to intolerance of German immigrants. For example, local governments prevented some orchestras from playing and this popular American food was renamed the “liberty sandwich,”
hamburger
If you were considered a health risk, you were taken out of line for further examination and marked by what?
Chalk
The California Supreme court ruled that what was inadmissible in the trial of a white man accused of murdering a Chinese man?
A Chinese person's testimony.
This Act of 1790 limited citizenship to free white people of “good moral character.”
The U.S. NaturaliZation Act of 1790
At this time, people from Spain, Italy, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East were not considered this race in the United States.
white
This island state pulled many immigrants from these countries to work in the agriculture industry? (name two nations)
Japan, Phillipines, China
There were two types of inspections an immigrant had to go through? What were they?
medical and legal
In the Ping case, the Supreme Court ruled that they could not overturn the Scott Act since Congress had declared that the immigration policy was a matter of this type of what?
national security