U.S. History

Conflicts over Immigration

Random Fact

Canada is South of Detroit (look
on a map)

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What is immigration?

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Why are they coming to the United States?

Learning target

I can Identify how these pieces of legislation negatively impacted and affected
immigrants that were living in the United States.

What is immigration?

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What is a push factor?

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What is a pull factor?

Chinese Exclusion Act

-This was the first significant law
restricting immigration into the United
States

-In the Spring of 1882, the Chinese
Exclusion Act was passed by Congress
and signed into law by Chester A. Arthur.

-This Act provided an absolute 10-year
ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to
the United States

Chinese Exclusion Act Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHfhiBHnk9A

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What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?

The Gentlemen's Agreement

-The Gentlemen’s Agreement was an informal arrangement between
the United States and Japan to ease the growing tensions between
the two countries

-This agreement was regarding immigration

-In this agreement President Theodore Roosevelt forced San
Francisco to repeal its Japanese-American school segregation in
exchange Japan agreed to deny emigration passports to Japanese
laborers.

Immigration Legislation of 1920

-These immigration acts limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the
United States through a national origins quota

-This act completely excluded immigrants from Asia

-Some of the acts/ laws, implemented a literacy test that required immigrants 16
years to demonstrate basic reading comprehension in any language.

-There was also a tax that had to be paid by the new immigrants upon arrival

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What was the purpose behind all of these pieces of legislation?

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What do you think Nativism is?