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The New Immigrants (254)

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Early America was very biased, even these holy places were segregated   cemeteries  
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What were the two main reasons immigrants came to the United States?   To escape difficult conditions like famine or persecution. To earn money, then go back to their homeland  
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Most European immigrants in the late 1800's came from __________, but in the 1900's more poured in from________   Northern and Eastern countries; South and Western Europe  
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What were the 3 main reasons Europeans came to America?   To escape religious persecution (Jews in Russia). To escape a rising population (not many jobs). Spirit of reform and revolt.  
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What was the main reason Chinese Immigrants came into the West?   To seek their fortunes, however many lived their lives as railroad workers and mining, with very very few even owning a business  
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What action, followed by a rumor, drew Japanese immigrants into California   Japanese worked as farmhands in Hawaii, when the US annexed Hawaii in 1898 a rumor was out that California had high wages so the Japanese went there.  
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Why did people from the West Indies come to the Southeastern and eastern US?   There weren't many jobs in their homecountries and they figured America promised jobs for all  
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Why did the Mexicans immigrate to the southern US?   To find jobs and escape political turmoil  
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The trip from Europe to America took about _________; During this time, passengers were treated more like __________ than people   one week; cargo  
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This was the most famous place Immigration inspections were held   Ellis Island  
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What were a few of the requirements to be able to be let in to the United States?   no diseases, able to work, no past felonys  
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Ellis Island was for European Immigrants, what was the main station for Asian immigration at San Fransisco Bay?   Angel Island  
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What kinds of things would ethnic communities work together to accomplish?   publish native language newspapers, build cemeteries, found old people's homes and orphanages, and formed social clubs  
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There was a lot of tension between what two groups of American people?   Native-born (believed in the melting pot theory that immigrants should forget their old culture) and immigrants (wanted to keep their culture alive)  
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What is nativism?   Overt favortisim towards native-born Americans  
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some nativists believed anglo-saxan (english ancestors) immigrants were ok if they were from the "right" countries. which countries were these?   Britain, Germany, Scandanavia`  
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Nativism is mostly based on this, not ethnic background   religious beliefs  
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In 1897 congress passed a bill requiring immigrants to do this before entering the US   reading 40 words of english or their native language  
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Especially in the depression of 1873 people in the west feared Chinese workers. why?   They would work for lower wages so they had a better chance of getting jobs  
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The general population of Chinese people was banned from the US in the Chinese Exclusion Act. When was the law forbidding them repealed?   it wasnt repealed until 1943  
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What did the Gentlemen's agreement say?   Chinese would limit the amount of unskilled workers that came to the US if the government de-segregated asian children in schools.  
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