Vocab
The First Europeans to immigrate to Western Hemisphere.
What are settlers?
Discrimination has always been tied to these factors.
What is economic burden, criminalization, and perpetual foreigner?
This Law created the first nationwide immigration system, giving the federal gov. authority over who could enter the country.
The Anti-Chinese Movement led to this movement that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The unfounded generalization that immigrants increase crime rates, despite numerous studies showing that immigrant populations often have lower incarceration rates than native-born populations
What is Criminalization?
The legal process for foreign-born individuals to voluntarily become U.S. citizens
What is naturalization?
These were push factors for immigration.
What is
Natural Disasters
-Warfare in China
-Economic crash
-Foreign trade decline
Under the Immigration Act of 1882, how much tax was imposed on any non-arriving citizen/immigrant to fund immigration enforcement?
What is 50 cents?
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882,became the first major U.S. immigration restriction targeting a specific nationality, barring this nationality of laborers from entering the country.
What are the Chinese?
A false belief that immigrants drain public resources (like healthcare or welfare) or "steal" jobs from native-born citizens
What is The Economic Burden?
The fear/phobia or hatred of strangers or foreigners.
What is Xenophobia?
These are pull factors.
What is
-Gold discovery
-Job opportunities & education
-Cheaper oceanic transportation
-Looked as valuable for labor
-religious freedom
This immigration standard, first introduced in the 1882 federal immigration law, allows officials to deny entry to someone deemed likely to become primarily dependent on government support.
What is the Public Charge rule?
Anti‑Chinese sentiment intensified during construction of this massive transportation project, where Chinese laborers faced discrimination despite being essential to its completion.
What is the Central Pacific Railroad?
These are types of discrimination immigrants faced.
What is verbal abuse, mob attacks, work place discrimination, and pay less than women.
The fear/phobia of anything associated with China
What is Sinophobia?
Once immigrants were settled in the U.S., employers took advantage of what from the laborer?
What are low wage, unsafe working conditions, and long hours?
This late‑19th‑century rationale linked the Immigration Act of 1882, the public charge rule, and the Alien Contract Labor Laws, arguing that restricting “undesirable” or dependent immigrants and banning imported labor would protect American workers.
What is the control of the labor market, economic protection, and nativist labor protection?
In what year were the Chinese laborers not able to enter the U.S. from any foreign place. (Hint it ends with a 4).
What is 1884?
These descriptions of immigrants were the basis for a public charge
What is "disabled", "convicts", "criminals", "Idiots", "Lunatics"?
Policy of protecting the interests of native-born individuals rather than immigrants
What is Nativism?
What is Alien and Sedition Acts 1798, the Chinese Exclusion Acts 1882, Alien Contract Labor laws of 1885 and 1887, Immigration Act of 1882
What is Alien Contract Labor Laws?
This nationality replaced the Chinese laborers working on the Railroads.
What is the Irish?
The assumption that even naturalized citizens or second-generation immigrants are not "truly" from the country they live in
What is Perpetual Foreigner?