Open Door Policy

Question 1

Reasons for mass migration

Answer 1

-push factors
-promise of work
-cheap land
-free and democratic society
-sufficient food
-American dream

Question 2

Changed attitudes toward immigrants

Answer 2

-racism
-spread of crime
-lack of jobs
-slums
-fear of revolution
-salad bowl

Question 3

Difficulties faced by immigrants

Answer 3

-language barrier (difficult to find employment)
-lack of education (accepting low paying jobs)
-disliked as used to break strikes
-housing in which new immigrants lived was often poorly maintained
-often poor so could only afford to rent houses in slum areas of the city
-some new immigrants lived in communities which consisted of people from their native country eg:little Italy