African American Immigration Research Paper

Old immigrants, such as the British, are settlers that came to the Americas, mostly from western and northern Europe, mostly from England and English territories. Firstly, old immigration they came to the Americas as families or groups and were literate and skilled. Moreover, old British immigrants came to the Americas for a wide variety of reasons such as political, social, and economic reasonings. The political reasoning would be because they would have freedoms. Socially they would have their religious freedom and economically they would be able to own more land. Consequently, the old British immigrants faced the early roots of nativism. Nativism is a return to or emphasis on traditional or local customs, in opposition to outside influences. Even though they faced nativism they had a big part in shaping America such as new ideas, skills, and cultures. …show more content…
They were different from all the other immigrants due to the fact they were once considered slaves and their skin was darker than the other immigrants. Also, African American immigrants came for employment and freedoms. Consequently, they faced major problems like discrimination and even laws preventing them to do certain things. They also helped shaped America when they came over with ideas such as different foods and different types of music and also culture.
The Literacy Test (1917) was a test to make sure only certain people could get into the USA. If you were classified as an idiot, imbecile, epileptic, alcoholic, poor, criminal, beggar, person suffering attacks of insanity, those with tuberculous, and those who have any form of dangerous contagious disease you were not going to be able to get into the USA. The Literacy Test was all about discrimination against immigrants by not allowing people into the country because of the problems listed above. The Literacy Test had a huge affect on immigration making it harder for immigrants to get into the