Waves of Immigrants
This immigrant group arrived in Angel Island. They first came over because of the gold rush, and later an exclusion act was passed in 1882 to keep them out. Many immigrants from this group that were already in the US tried to get their "family" members into the country. The "family" was intensely interrogated and was deported if they got any question wrong
Chinese
Number of immigrants who moved to America between 1890 and 1920
23 million
In 1921 this Act established a Quota and said that only 3% of the immigrants from that country would be allowed in each year (Ex: 100,000 German immigrants in US, only 3,000 new German immigrants allowed).
Emergency Immigration Act
Something that makes people want to leave their homeland and something that makes immigrants want to move to a country
push/pull factor
Most of this group came from Eastern Europe because they were persecuted for their religious beliefs. Most of them moved to LES (Lower East Side) in New York. They came to US with many skills and benefited from American school system.
Jewish immigrants
The equivalent of Ellis island on the west coast
Angel Island
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in.....
1882
Definition of a WASP
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
These immigrants came to the US because their country was in a civil war, and the government was taking away their land. Many began to work for the railroad earning more than at home, and benefiting a lot from Chinese exclusion. Many started barrios since they only had seasonal jobs. Even though they proved to work very hard in poor conditions, the US then had the same mindset as it does now: "Get out"
Mexican immigrants
Over the Rhine
In 1907 these immigrants were no longer allowed to enter the US
Japanese
Definition of a barrio
Neighborhood
This group came to America because of poor economy especially in the southern part of the country. Sometimes just the men would come to send money home to their families at home. Many were split up at Ellis Island. Nearly 50% of these immigrants chose to go home. They valued family so much that some families didn't send their kids to school to prevent them from learning English.
Italians
Political party that was against German and Irish immigrants in Cincinnati (From pamphlet)
Know-nothings
In 1917 Congress passed a bill saying that in order for immigrants to come to America they had to be able to.....
read and write
Definition of a pogrom
a government approved attack on a specific group of people
The biggest wave of immigrants; the latest wave of immigrants
Latin Americans; Asians
Phrase on the Statue of liberty from a poem
“Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free”
In 1924 the Immigration Act was passed. It lowered the quota to 2% and used numbers from WHAT CENSUS and it targeted those from BLANK and BLANK Europe (direction for BLANK's
1890;Southern and Eastern
money sent home by immigrants to their families
remittance