EARLY AMERICAN IMMIGRATION
What were pull factors to come to America?
Religious Freedom/Economic opportunity
This group of people came over due to the Opium Wars, famines, and political instability in their home country
The Chinese
These two Italian Immigrants were arrested and convicted of murder, but this was largely due to nativism at this time
Sacco and Vanzetti
This immigration law limited Chinese coming to America in 1882
The Chinese Exclusion Act
What groups came over to American during the 1600-1700's?
English and Protestant Immigrants
One of the push factors for this group to leave was the Potato Famine
The Irish
This racist group grew in power in the 1920s due to anti immigrant sentiment in the USA
The KKK
This war led to the decreased immigration in America in the early 1900s
World War One
True or false: From 1790-1875 there was no exclusions to immigration
True
The name for the political machine that the Irish were widely apart of in NYC
Tammany Hall/Boss Tweed
This time of heightened paranoia happened in the 1920s as a result of Eastern Europeans and Russians coming to the USA
The Red Scare
True or False: The 1924 Immigration Bill included quotas
True
What group of people was officially excluded from America?
The Chinese
The mountain range that the workers of the Transcontinental RR had to blast through
The Sierra Nevada's
The Chinese wrote a letter to this president about the discrimination they were facing
This immigration act removed the quota system and led to the increase of immigrants coming to the USA from Africa and Asia
Immigration Act of 1965
How many years did you need to live in the US in 1790 to become a citizen?
2 years
This political party was an "America First" party that had large a nativist platform and was against Irish immigration
The Know Nothing Party
The Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed in this year
1943
This was an immigration bill in 1996 that led to the increased deportation of immigrants
IRAIRA