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21 Cards in this Set
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How many immigrants entered the US in 1881-1890? |
5,250,000 |
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Where did a majority of immigrants come from? |
Britain, Ireland,Germany and Scandinavia |
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How many immigrants arrived in the US from Germany and Britain? |
GER- 250,000 GB- 103,000 |
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List the pull factors of Immigration: |
1) Advertisement, eg. 'Where to Emigrate and Why' workbook describes methods, costs and prospects of emigrating 2) Transport companies |
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How did the Transportation companies encourage immigrants to move to the US? |
1) Payed for Immigrants to travel across the Atlantic 2) Reduced transport costs, loans at low interest rates, created classes in farming, sold of land to immigrants 3) State bureau's advertise their locale to immigrants - 'The Empire State of the North West' pamphlet in Minnesota |
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List the pull factors of Immigrating to the US: |
1) Europe was in political, economic and religious discontent 2) There was industrial and agricultural revolutions in Britain and Norway 3) In Ireland there was agricultural mismanagement with absentee landlords |
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Why did America appeal to the Jewish population of Russia in the 1800s? |
- Anti-semitism - Race riots - Persecution - America offered them a chance to escape persecution |
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What evidence suggests that Jewish persecution encouraged the emigration to the US? |
1880- 5000 Jews in US 1900- 90,000 Jews in US |
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What happened in Japan in 1885 that sparked a mass exodus? |
- Japanese Emperor revoked a ban on emigration - Most went to work on plantations in Hawaii |
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What happened in China that caused mass emigration? |
- The Taiping Rebellion devastated China 1848 - Many Chinese immigrants laid the track of the Central Pacific Railroad |
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What percentage of the workforce did immigrants make up? |
56% in 1890 |
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Who objected to immigrants working in America and why? |
TUs because they created competition for jobs |
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Who supported the TUs and what was introduced in the 80s? |
Congress who passed the Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 |
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Give an example of criticism towards the British immigrats: |
The New York Herald Tribune stated: ' English workmen must change their habits if they are to make good in the US' |
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Give examples of criticism towards immigrants: |
Harpers and Atlantic Monthly depicted Irish as ugly, Scottish as mean and Italians as mobsters |
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Give examples of Anti-Semitism in America: |
- Jews were not allowed to vote until the 19th Century - 'No Jews or Dogs admitted here' signs |
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Give the definition of Nativism: |
The policy of protecting the interests of the native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. |
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Which three groups followed the policy of nativism and why? |
1) TUs - threatened jobs and wages of their members 2) Social Reformers- influx of immigrants exacerbated problems of the cities 3) Protestant Conservatives - supposed threat to their Nordic supremacy |
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Why did two unions join togeher in 1882? |
The TUs joined together to form the Local Assembly 300 to oppose contract labour |
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What was introduced in 1885? |
Congress put a ban on foreign contract labour |
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Give two examples of violence as a result of immigration: |
- Orange riots in 1870 between Irish Protestants and Catholics - Irish gangs in Chicago terrorised any new Immigrants |
