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Immigration

Immigration. I. Immigration to the United States spikes in the late 19 th and early 20 th Centuries A. Large numbers of immigrants B. From new places 1. Mediterranean Europe (Italy, Greece, Spain) 2. Ireland 3. China and Japan . II. There is a nativist backlash

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Immigration

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  1. Immigration

  2. I. Immigration to the United States spikes in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries • A. Large numbers of immigrants • B. From new places • 1. Mediterranean Europe (Italy, Greece, Spain) • 2. Ireland • 3. China and Japan

  3. II. There is a nativist backlash • A. The Know Nothing Party seeks to slow or stop immigration from anywhere except Northern Europe

  4. B. Many new immigrants from Europe are Catholic

  5. C. Irish Immigration • Irish potato famine • 1845 a blight hits potato crops in Ireland, approximately 1 million dieand 1 millionflee to America (20-25% of the population)

  6. Immigration Act 1924 • The following passage features the reasoning of Senator Reed (R-Pa), one of the authors of the Immigration Act of 1924. The current law restricted the flow of immigrants to 3% of the number of immigrants of any particular country that had been living in the United States in 1910. Reed wanted to stem the flow to only 2% and was successful in persuading Congress to pass this restriction under the new legislation.� Excerpted from "Our New Nordic Immigration Policy," Literary Digest 10 May 1924: 12-13. • The purposes of the new law, we read in a New York Times article by Senator Reed (Rep., Pa.), author of The Senate Bill, are: • "1. America realizes that she is no longer a desert country in need of reinforcements to her population. She realizes that her present numbers and their descendants are amply sufficient to bring out her natural resources at a reasonable rate of progress. She knows that her prosperity at this moment far exceeds that of any other land in the world. She realizes that unless immigration is numerically restrained she will be overwhelmed by a vast migration of peoples from the war-stricken countries of Europe. Such a migration could not fail to have a baleful effect upon American wages and standards of living, and it would increase mightily our problem of assimilating the foreign-born who are already here. Out of these thoughts have risen the general demands for limitation of the number of immigrants who may enter this country. • "2. There has come about a general realization of the fact that the races of men who have been coming to us in recent years are wholly dissimilar to the native-born Americans; that they are untrained in self-government-- a faculty that it has taken the Northwestern Europeans many centuries to acquire. America was beginning also to smart under the irritation of her 'foreign colonies'-- those groups of aliens, either in city slums or in country districts, who speak a foreign language and live a foreign life, and who want neither to learn our common speech nor to share our common life. From all this has grown the conviction that it was best for America that our incoming immigrants should hereafter be of the same races as those of us who are already here, so that each year's immigration should so far as possible be a miniature America, resembling in national origins the persons who are already settled in our country. . . ." • "It is true that 75 per cent of our immigration will hereafter come from Northwestern Europe; but it is fair that it should do so, because 75 per cent of us who are now here owe our origin to immigrants from those same countries. . . ."

  7. D. Chinese come in large numbers to build the railroads in the west • 1. Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 • 2.Gentleman’s Agreement with Japan

  8. III. Push-Pull of immigration • A. Immigration increases when there is a push and a pull • 1. Push = a reason to leave their homeland; war, famine, oppressive government, poor economy • 2. Pull = benefits of coming to the US; economic opportunity, freedom and liberty

  9. Sample questions from US Citizenship test • How many times can a senator be re-elected? • 3 times • 2 times • No limit • 4 times

  10. In what month is the new President inaugurated? • November • December • January • February

  11. Which president was the first Commander In Chief of the U.S. military? • George Washington • Abraham Lincoln • Ulysses S. Grant • Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

  12. What is the introduction to the Constitution called? • The Bill of Rights • The Declaration of Independence • The Preamble • The Unification of the States

  13. In what year was the Constitution written? • 1777 • 1776 • 1787 • 1786

  14. Who has the power to declare war? • Congress • The Secretary of Defense • The President • The American public

  15. Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence? • John Adams • James Monroe • Thomas Jefferson • James Madison

  16. Which countries were America's enemies during World War II? • Germany, Russia, and Japan • Germany, France, and Italy • Germany, Italy, and Japan • Germany, Japan, and China

  17. Which of the following was not one of the original thirteen states? • Connecticut • Massachusetts • Vermont • New Hampshire

  18. What country did the US fight during the revolutionary war? • Itself (the North vs the South) • Germany • France • England

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