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Immigration Act of 1917
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Required that immigrants be able to read and write in some language
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Morrill Act
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Provided funds for land grant colleges
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Hull House
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Settlement house that was founded by Jane Adams
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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The first law passed to limit immigration
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Immigrants refused permission to enter if....
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... if they had children.
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Immigrant's biggest challenge
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Finding work in the US
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Reason people would emigrate
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Ethnic group persecution, also economic troubles
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Where did many immigrants live?
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In urban apartment slums called tenements
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Suburbs
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Where middle class families lived, outside of the city
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Angel Island
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Processing center where Asian immigrants went through
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