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New Immigration Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1887 American Protective Association | Openly discriminatory against Roman Catholics, stop immigrants from coming (by 1900 immigrants 15% of pop), highly xenophobic and create conspiracies, Social Darwinists, Depression of 1893-foreigners as scapegoats |
| 1887 Immigration Restrication League | Founded in Boston by 5 Harvard Alumni, belief that immigrants should be screened thru literacy tests/other standards to separate the desirable from undesirable immigrants, must be able to read/write in English or own language before entering US |
| 1885 Immigration Act | Prohibits any employer or individual from bringing foreign contract labor into US in order to protect American workers |
| Dillingham Report 1911 | Govt study by Congress to investigate effects of immigration on the US, concluded that 63% of Italian immigrants 67% of Polish Jews were retarded; data coincides with popular belief that new immigrants were inferior |
| Passing of the Great Race by Madison Grant 1916 | warns of mongrelization (interbreeding) and advocated for protection of purity of Anglo-Saxon-Nordic ppl |
| 1927 Buck v. Bell | Supreme Court upheld Eugenics state laws throughout US |
| 1917 Literacy Test | Lit test passes, requires all immigrants to read/write English or some other language before granted entry into US, PROVES INEFFECTIVE: btwn 1918-1921 of 1.5 immigrants only 6000 limited |
| 1917 Asiatic Barred Zone | AKA Immigration Act of 1917 or the Asia-Pacific Triangle: from with no person could immigrate or be naturalized; ran from Turkey to Southeast Asia (Middle east, most of China, all of South Asia) |
| 1919 First Red Scare | Leads to outbreak of fear and violence against people deeme to be political radicals, foreigners considered to be susceptible to communist propaganda and more likely to be involved in Bolshevik, Emma Lazarus deported to Russa for opposing US draft |
| 1921 Emergency Immigration Act | Began limited immigration from outside Western Hemisphere, limits via a quota system (first time established in US history) to annual immigration to 3% of people living in US of that nationality in 1910, Asians & Muslims excluded |
| 1920s KKK achieves widespread influence | Anti Catholic, anti semetic, anti Black, xenophobia developed rise of "Second Klan", targeted anyone who threatened "traditional values" like biases against Poles, Italians, Greeks, Russians, immigration = radicalism |
| 1922 Ozawa v. US | supreme court affirms 1790 Nationality Act's stipulation that Asian are ineligible for naturalization because they are racially not "white" regardless of their cultural assimilation |
| 1923 US v. Bhaghat Singh Thind | supreme court rules that Indians from the Asian subcontinent CANNOT become US citizens, Indians are barred from coming to US, those in US cannot bring their wives over |
| 1924 National Origins Act | Bans all immigration from east Asia, all immigration cut from 3-2% by using 1890 census, OPEN DOOR POLICY OFFICIALLY ENDS |
| 1899 Jane Addams Hull House Chicago founded | major purpose of settlement houses was to help assimilate/ease transtion of immigrants to the labor force by teaching them middle class American values-->Hull House help edicate immigrants by providing classes/social services; 1890 over 400 SHs |
| Bracero Program 1942-1964 | Quota system not applied to any country in Western Hemisphere, Mexican immigration encouraged during WWII, Bracero (manual labor) treaties established migrant workers to come to US |
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