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20 Cards in this Set
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Name of the American policy to allow immigrants to arrive easily |
Open Door Policy |
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Why did America adopt the open door policy in the early 1900s? |
Provide workers and to populate |
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What was the name for the idea of different nationalities blending together? |
Melting pot |
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Where did 70% of immigrants arrive? |
Ellis island |
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What was the immediate experience of most immigrants? |
More poverty |
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Why did America restrict immigration during 1920s? |
Enough workers, racial intolerance, religious prejudice, red scare |
Ew, ri, rp, rs |
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A literacy test for immigrants was introduced in what year? |
1917 |
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The Emergency Quota Act limited immigration to how many per year? |
357000 |
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The Immigration Origin Act of 1924 limited immigration to how many per year? |
150000 |
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Immigration was difficult unless you came from where? |
North West Europe |
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In 1919 a bomb went off which damaged the home of who? |
Mitchell Palmer, the Attorney General |
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How many people died due to a bomb exploding on Wall Street in September 1920? |
38 |
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Who did people blame for the bomb incidents? |
Communists and anarchists |
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Mitchell Palmer organised what in response to the bombings? |
The Palmer Raids |
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How many suspected socialists and anarchists were arrested in the Palmer raids? |
6000 |
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Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested in May 1920 for what? |
Armed robbery and murder |
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As Italian and self confessed anarchist, Sacco and Vanzetti's trial became about what? |
Their radical ideas |
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61 witnesses for the prosecution turned up. How many for the defense? |
107 |
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Who was the narrow minded, xenophobic judge? |
Judge Thayer |
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They were found guilty and sentenced to murder. After 6 years of appeals, when did they die? |
23rd August 1927 |
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