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Chap. 16 Sect. 1

Chapter 16 Section 1 Outline

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Old Immigrants immigrants who came to the United States before the 1880s; mostly Protestants from Northwestern Europe
New Immigrants immigrants who came to the United States between the 1880s and 1910; mostly from southern and eastern Europe; Jews and Catholics
Where did immigrants arrive in the east Ellis Island, NY Statue of Liberty! Island of tears.
Where did immigrant arrive in the west Angel Island, CA
Why did immigrants come to the United States Improve living conditions, money, practice religion freely, escape war, escape famine, find jobs, escape corrupt government
Those that supported immigrants Business owners because they could pay them less Politicians because they wanted their vote
Benevolent Societies organizations that helped immigrants in cases of sickness, unemployment, and death
Those that opposed immigrants (Nativists)Why They took their jobs, took land, and had different religions
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) law that denied U.S. citizenship to people born in China and prohibited Chinese immigration of laborers
Immigration Restriction League organization formed in 1894 that sought to impose a literacy test on all immigrants to the United States
Denis Kearney leader of the Workingmen's Party against immigration especially Chinese immigration Irish immigrant himself
Grover Cleveland President at the time; vetoed the Immigration Restriction League and called it "illiberal, narrow, and un-American"
Steerage poor accommodations in a ship's lower levels; many immigrants to the United States traveled in this space
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