Immigration Flashcard #2 Review

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What is the Quota System?

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A system created to limit the number of immigrants who could come to America

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What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

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Banning Chinese people from immigrating to the United States for 10 years, and extending until 1946

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What did Nativists believe?

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Immigrants threatened the American way of Life and Democracy, White Protestants from northern Europe were superior to other immigrant groups, Immigrants stole jobs from native born Americans.

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What challenges did immigrants face in the US?

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Had trouble learning the language/faced prejudice

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Why did unregulated immigration end in the 1920s?

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The U.S. passed quota laws limiting immigration

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This prevented Japanese people from leaving Japan to come to the US

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Gentlemen's Agreement

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During the period from 1880 to 1910, why did the majority of immigrants to the United States settle in urban areas in the North? Options: Rapid industrialization led to more farm jobs, Most immigrants had lived in cities in their native countries., Rapid industrialization had created many job opportunities., Labor unions gave financial help to immigrants willing to work in the factories.

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Rapid industrialization had created many job opportunities.

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Which law began limiting the flow of immigrants, setting a cap of 350,000 per year when it was passed in 1921?

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Emergency Quota Act

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Who was Jacob Riis and how did he contribute to reform?

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Wrote a book, "How the Other Half Lives," that showed the public what life was like in New York City living in the tenement slums.

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Describe tenement housing.

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Cramped apartments in large cities that had disease & crime.