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100

The earliest waves of immigration to the United States came from this region.

What was northern and western Europe?

100
1882-1943
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
100

Nativists during the Gilded Age were fearful of this general consequence of large-scale immigration.

What were changes to American culture?

100
This decade revealed that more Americans were living in cities than in the countryside.
What was the 1920's?
100
In 1942, Executive Order 9066 authorized the relocation of these people within the United States.
Who were Japanese-Americans?
200
Between the 1830's and the 1850's these two waves of immigrants came to the United States.
What were the Irish and German?
200

This is the policy being debated to give legal status to children who were brought to the United States illegally.

What is DACA?

200
Nativists preferred that immigrants came from this location
What was northern and western Europe?
200
This decade provided the base year for the Quota System.
What was 1890?
200
This facility operated between 1892 and 1954.
What was Ellis Island?
300
Japanese immigration to the United States dramatically rose in response to this 1882 law.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
In 1965 this new immigration system was put into effect.
What was the Preference System?
300
This group formed in reaction to Irish and German immigration in the mid-nineteenth century.
Who were the Know-nothings?
300
This decade brought the beginnings of Chinese Exclusion.
What was the 1880's
300

These two general circumstances historically have caused immigration rates to fall.

What are wars and economic depressions?

400
After 1965 immigrants from this region of the world increased dramatically.
What was Asia?
400
Japanese immigration was limited by this policy.
What was the Gentlemen's Agreement?
400
This group re-emerged in the early twentieth century in reaction to the arrival of the New Immigrants.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
400

These decades saw the most dramatic increases in immigration from Asia

What were the 1960's, 70's and 80's?

400
In the 1870's this was a major "pull" factor for immigrants.
What was the availability of industrial jobs?
500
In the 1890's one large wave receded and another began to grow.
What were the Old and New Immigrants?
500

This act saw the first numeric limitations on immigration in U.S. History.

What was the Quota/National Origins Act of 1921-24?

500
Nativism was largely responsible for the passage of this early twentieth century immigration policy.
What is was the National Origins System?
500

These decades saw the greatest drop in immigration from all regions of the world.

What were the 1930's and 1940's?

500

The Chinese Exclusion Act was originally intended to last this many years.

What was ten? (or twenty).