EARLY AMERICAN IMMIGRATION
What were pull factors to come to America?
Religious Freedom/Political Freedom/Economic opportunity (jobs)
What group of immigrants came over during the Gold Rush and helped with the Transcontinental Railroad?
The Chinese
Why were labor leaders fearful of the immigrants?
They worried they would take American jobs by working long hours for less pay.
This immigration law limited Chinese coming to America in 1882
The Chinese Exclusion Act
What did Ellis Island replace?
Castle Gardens
What groups came over to American during the 1600-1700's?
English and Protestant Immigrants
They are considered the most fortunate immigrants as they moved to the Midwest and helped with farming.
The Scandinavians
Poverty and slums brought two fears. What were they?
Lower standard of living and increased crime and disease
What is the reason immigration limits were set?
Racial prejudice
What year did Ellis Island open and how many immigrants came through?
1892 and 1 million per year
What groups made up the next wave of immigrants to the United States?
British and Germans
Why did most immigrants hang around the cities?
They had no money or job skills.
What new religions were causing concern with immigration?
Catholics, Jews, and Eastern Orthodox
What did immigrants do for America?
Make America an industrial giant.
What percentage of immigrants were sent back to their countries?
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
When immigrants formed schools and churches, what fear did it spark?
Fear that American cultural unity was being threatened.
Diverse races and ethnic cultures blend to form a new and unified nation.
Melting Pot
Why was Ellis Island called the Island of Hope, the Island of Tears by the immigrants?
It was hope for a new life for those who got through inspection and tears for those who did not and were separated from their families.
Where was the new wave of immigrants coming from?
Eastern and Southern Europe-Italy, Greece, Russia
Many immigrants were illiterate which led to this.
Working in sweat shops and living in crowded tenements.
Tiny part of opposition was due to
radicals, revolutionaries, and potential enemies of American freedoms and institutions
Quotas couldn't stop the immigrants from being successful. What were some of their successes?
Shopkeepers, businessmen, labor forces
What were the letters used to mark diseases and health concerns?
H-heart problems, X-mental illness, Sc-scalp infection, K-hernia, F-facial rash