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US Immigration
USH Romeyn
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nativism, Know Nothing | Based on concept that on "native born" Americans deserved rights and citizenship, anti-catholic, anti-immigrant. Know Nothing Party was pre-Civil War |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million |
| Old Immigrants | Refers to Irish and German immigrants who arrived in America in 1820-1860. |
| New Immigrants | Refers to immigrants who arrived in America between about 1870-1920. Tended to be from Eastern/Southern Europe, darker skinned, didn't speak English, poor, faced discrimination. |
| Ellis Island | Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892 |
| American Protective Association | A Nativist group of the 1890s which opposed all immigration to the U.S. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States |
| 1924 Immigration Act | Allowed 2% of immigrant populating living in U.S. in 1890 to enter the country, establish quota system, discriminate against Southern/Eastern European immigrants. |
| KKK | Southern society formed in 1866 to prevent freed men and women from exercising their rights and to help whites regain power; revised in the 1920's to terrorize foreigners, Catholics, Jews, etc., |
| Red Scare (1920s) | anti-immigrant movement in America, targeted radicals, anarchists, labor unions. |
| Bracero Program | Wartime agreement between the United States and Mexico to import farm workers to work in Southwest US farms; workers do not get citizenship/rights. |
| Japanese American internment | forced movement of Japanese Americans into camps during WWII (1942), fear of sabotage, but no acts seen. |
| Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 | abolished "national origins" quota system that had been in place since 1924, the act also doubled the number of immigrants allowed to enter annually |
| 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act | In 1986 the Immigration Reform and Control act issued hundreds of thousands of visas to undocumented immigrants, making them legal migrants. Penalties to employers who hire illegal immigrants. |
| Arizona Law | recently passed in AZ, police check immigration status of anyone arrested. Aims to reduce illegal immigration. |
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