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EjnesImmigration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who did the Chinese Exclusion Act exclude? | Laborers |
| what was added in 1917? | literacy test |
| in what year was the emergency immigration act put into place? | 1921 |
| How many people came to the U.S. each year during the early 1700s? | Less than 10,000 |
| When was the third wave? | 1904 to 1914 |
| When was the first big wave? | 1815 to 1850 |
| When did the second wave peak? | The 1880s |
| What slowed the third wave? | World War I |
| What race was driven out of Russia during the Great Wave? | The Jews |
| Where were most of the immigrants from during the 1700s? | British Isles or Germany |
| What were Armenians driven out by? | Turkish Massacres |
| What fear caused many men to leave? | Being drafted into the army |
| Where are the immigrants coming from in the current wave? | Asia, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. |
| What made the European crossing faster? | Steam Power |
| What religions were seen as a threat to American culture? | Catholics, Jews, and Muslims |
| What created a need for labor? | Industrialization |
| In what year was the Chinese Exclusion Act put into place? | 1882 |
| What act set a quota system for immigration? | Emergency Immigration Act |
| In what year was a total immigration cap added? | 1929 |
| In what year was a law that barred idiots, insane, poor, ill, criminals, and polygamists? | 1891 |
| What was abundant on North Atlantic runs? | Food and Privacy |
| How many times did more than one million people immigrate to the U.S. during the 3rd Great Wave? | 6 |
| What was immigration like during the Revolutionary period? | Very little |
| Where were most people from in the 3rd wave? | Eastern and Southern Europe |
| Was there immigration during the Civil War? | Very little |
| In what time period were Laws to prohibit "contact labor" being made? | 1885-1887 |
| When was the National Origins Act put into place? | 1924 |
| Where were most of the immigrants in the second wave from? | Ireland, British Isles, and Germany |
| What percentile of the number of people from a country could come to the US in 1910? | No more than 3% |
| On what ships were the conditions bad on? | Those from Italy, Greece, and France |
| What is a Push factor? | Why someone would leave a country |
| What is a Pull factor? | Why someone would go to a new country |
| What was added in 1929? | A total cap |
| What were some forms of support for immigrants? | Tenements (housing), sewers, Trolley lines, and Schools |
| What were two reasons why people left Europe? | Collapse of Agricultural Order and Religious and Ethnic persecution |
| How were the Jews driven out of Russia? | Physical Attacks and Economic Discrimination |
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