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1882, Congress shut down chinese immigration for 10 yrs
-Separated Families
-Western cities lost thier work force (cheap labor)
-In 1892, act was extended 10 yrs, then in 1902 chinese immigration was suspended indefinitly; the law was not repealed untill 1943
- "Know Nothing Party"- working mans party |
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| Contract Labor Act of 1885 |
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| Barred entry to immigrants whose passage had been paid by American employers |
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| Stated that immigrants who were illegally in this country were to be deported (expelled) |
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| Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 |
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-Nations involved: U.S. and Japan
-School Board of Education in San Francisco discriminated all asian students
-President at time: Roosevelt
-The agreement stated that segregation of school students is gone while Japan limits Japanese workers immigrating
-Caused Anti-American riots in American stores in Japan |
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-Passed by the California state legislature; stated that since Japancese and other Asians were "aliens ineligible for citizenship", they were probibited from owning agricultual land.
-Since they could not farm, they could not vote. |
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| Literacy Test Act of 1917 |
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-Would only allow immigrants who could read and write
-Passed by president Wilson |
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Immigration Act of 1921
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-Set up a quota system, which established a maximum number of people who could enter the U.S. from each foriegn country
-Discriminated people from Eastern Europe
-Favored people from Western and Northern Europe |
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Immigration Act of 1924
(Emergency quota) |
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-Amended 1921 version by limiting immigration from each European nation to 2% of the number os its nationals living in the U.S. in 1890
-Discriminated against Roman Catholics and Jews
-Western and Northern Europe were again favored (protestants) |
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National Origins Act of 1927
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-Shifted the base year of the 1924 law to 1920
-Reduced total number of immigrants coming in one year to 150,000 people
-Prohibited Japanese people, whiched caused tension between U.S. and Japan
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| Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 |
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-Quota for those coming from Eastern Hemisphere was 170,000
-Quota from Western Hemisphere was 120,000
-No more than 20,000 coming from any one country
-Exceptions to close relatives
-Ended old quota system that was based on nationality
-Opened doors to non-European immigrants
-In 1970's large groups came from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia; they were escaping the aftermath of the Vietnam War. |
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| Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 |
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-Reduced number of illegal aliens into the U.S. by Increased border patrol, mandated against employers hiring illegal immigrants, and providing amnesty for these who have lived in the U.S. continuously since 1982
-Cut down on smuggling, made employers more cautious.
-Negative Effect, they were rewarding bad behavior.
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Goals:
-Change worldwide level of immigration
-Create a preference system for admission
-Revise the grounds for exclusion and deportation
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Preference given to Family-related immigrants, Employment based immigrants and diversity immigrants (natives of foreign sates from which immigration was lower than 50,000 over the preceding 5 yrs.) |
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| Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act of 1996 |
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-Improvements of barriers at the border
-Increased Penalties for alien smuggling and document faud
-Improved the verification system for eligibility for employment
-Provided benefits only to those legally entitled to them. |
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-Goal was to take appropriate actions to achieve operational control over U.S. international land and maritime borders
-Secretary of Homeland Security is responsible for control over the nations borders
-Improved by using unmannded aerial vehicles, ground based sencors, satellites, radar coverage and cameras.
-States involved include California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas |
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| Program to make immigrants assimilate to American culture |
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| A minoity group's adoption of the beliefs and way of life of the dominant culture. |
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| Cultural Pluralism / Salad Bowl |
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| The idea that the U.S. is not a melting pot but instead a salad bowl. All different cultures are combined like a salad but do not merge together and lose their individual identities. Instead, they co-exist side by side and each is to be respected and seen as valuable. Each ethnic group practices its own customs while also adjusting to the ways of the larger society. |
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| The migration of people into one country from another, for the pupose of permanent settlement. |
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| A mixture of people from different cultures and races who blend together by abandoning thier native languages and cultures. |
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| Favoring the interests of native born people over foreign born people. |
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| Political Machine/ Political Boss |
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| A organized group that controls a political party in a city and offers sevices to voters and businesses in exchange for political and financial support. |
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| The view that Asian immigrants in the late 1800's threatened U.S. society because of their cultural differences form the white majority. |
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| (1847–1907) was a California populist political leader in the late 19th century, known for his nativist and racist views toward Chinese immigrants |
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-Landscape Architect
-Drew up plan for "greensward" which became Central Park.
-Designed park system in Buffalo, Buffalo State Assylum |
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an American poet born in New York City.
She is best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its final lines were engraved on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty[1] in 1912
- "give me your tired, your poor, your guddled masses yarning to breath free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tossed, to me" |
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| He intervened in the 1907 Gentlemans agreement |
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| Passed the 1917 Literacy Test Act |
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| Led by Dennis Kearney, their message was "chinese must go" |
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| Immigration Restriction League |
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1894- worked for a literacy test that would ban immigrants who could not read or write.
-It was passed by congress, but was vetoed by presidents 4 times untill passed and signed by Wilson in 1917. |
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| 1850's- order of the star spangled banner, secret society (get rid of immigrants) in the U.S. |
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Faced discrimination in housing (segregated neighborhoods, de facto segregation), Education, Employment (last hired, first fired, excluded from labor unions, pay inadiquitly).
-northern cities often saw the explosion of race riots. |
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- called the "yellow peril"
-major force in building the transcontinental railroad
-major force in California industries, yet whites feared job loss which led to segregated schools, housing, Chinese Exclusion Act |
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-Segregation of children in San Francisco schools led to Gentlemen's Agreement (1907)
-1913, Alien land act made it impossible for them and other asians to won agricultural land
-1924, Quota law made them ineligible for citizenship
-1929, Quota law excluded them from entering the U.S. altogether. |
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-discrimination in housing, education and employment
-while employed more than any other ethnic group to construct railroads in the dry, hot southwest, they were paid less than any other group. |
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(old immigrants)
-northern and western europe
-the colonial wave
(france, spain, germany)
- came because of exploration, economic opportunity and religious toleration (gold,glory,god)
-slaves shipped here
-famine forced some here |
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1860-1940
Southern and Eastern Europe also china, japan, americas
-came because of economic opportunities, political persecution (jews), and land (europe is overcrowded, drought) |
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"boat people"
"new new immigrants"
from asia and the americas
same reasons as the other 2 waves |
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