1. Discovery Immigration: Quiz Review

2. Part A. Definitions • International Migration • Encompasses many movements: voluntary emigration, work migration that has been legalized by work and residence permits and flight or expulsion forced by violence or life threatening situations • Push Factors • Living conditions at the place of origin which are perceived as threatening or intolerable which move or force people to leave their homes • Pull Factors • Come from receiving countries that have something to entice newcomers • Nativists • U.S. citizens who opposed immigration • Old Immigrants • Immigrants who came to the U.S. before the 1880’s, most were from Northern Europe • New Immigrants • Immigrants who came to the U.S. during and after the 1880’s, most were from Southern and Eastern Europe • Immigration Restriction League • Organization founded in 1894 by nativists who wanted to reduce immigration

3. Part B. Laws • Chinese Exclusion Act • (1882) law prohibiting Chinese people from immigrating to the U.S. for a period of 10 years • Emergency Quota Act • (1921) law that limited the number of immigrants to the U.S. to 357,000/year • National Origins Act • (1924) law reducing immigration to the U.S. and completely stopping Japanese immigration; set quotas that favored northern European immigrants • Hart-Cellar Act • (1965) replaced the quota system that favored immigrants from western Europe with one that offered hope to immigrants from every continent • Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 • AKA Hart-Cellar Act- increased number of immigrants from Asia by at least 5 times

4. Part C. Questions • How might a rapid population growth promote migration? • Leads to unemployment which is a major factor of migration • What continent did most of the immigrants migrate from between 1880 and 1930? • Europe • What worldwide event made immigration to the United States less attractive in 1930? • Great Depression • How did the experience of Asian immigrants on Angel Island differ from the experience of European immigrants on Ellis Island? • Asian immigrants held for much longer and many turned away, while at Ellis Island most Europeans made it into America relatively quickly • Which groups of immigrants were not accepted when they arrived? Why were they targeted? Use specific historical examples to support your answer. • New group faced discrimination, especially if culture and appearance not similar

5. Part D. Push and Pull Factors