USA 1 immigration

Question 1

isolationism KU

Answer 1

Term given of staying out of countries affairs
Directed to WW1
Immigrants entering at same time as soldiers
Emergency Immigration Law 1921 - 357,000 immigrants to enter
Quota system

Question 2

isolationism A

Answer 2

Acts actively encouraged Americans to follow policies
To stay out of affairs
Favoured WASPs
Prove that to isolate = immigrant numbers controlled

Question 3

isolationism A+

Answer 3

Acts passed before 1920
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 prevented all chinese to enter
Immigration Act 1917 increased tax and added a literacy test

Question 4

isolationism E

Answer 4

1924 Origins Act based on racial attitudes
High satisfaction depending where you came form
Didnt want to isolate entirely

Question 5

social fears KU

Answer 5

Didnt like foreigners
Unskilled, dirty, little english, poor
Congregated in big cities
Awful conditions
Difficult to escape

Question 6

social fears A

Answer 6

Immigrants were blamed
Taverns, gambling houses and brothels established
Temporary escape
Crime rates high
Journalists took as proof

Question 7

social fears A+

Answer 7

Real cause = loneliness, illness and poverty
Stole to survive
Coincidence taverns, Nativists visited routinely
Crime rates no higher

Question 8

social fears E

Answer 8

Sacco and Vanzetti
Arrested for killing 2 men
“Anarchist bastards”
Americans to shift blame
Increased beliefs of all immigrants causing issues to American society

Question 9

prejudice and racism KU

Answer 9

New viewed with suspicion
Didnt integrate - wore own clothes and language
Dillingham Commission compared new to old
Madison Grant “The Passing of the Great Race” based on racial superiority

Question 10

prejudice and racism A

Answer 10

MG and DC increased dominance of Nativism
WASPs felt threatened by new immigrants
Turned against them

Question 11

prejudice and racism A+

Answer 11

MG sold 17,000 copies
Not a lot = America population 102 million
Not all were against immigrants on racial beliefs

Question 12

prejudice and racism E

Answer 12

Jones “It was not the increased numbers but the change in nature which led to calls for tighter controls” WASPs felt insecure so wanted power
Something which MG preached

Question 13

economic fears KU

Answer 13

America’s economy dropped after WW1
Soldiers discovered little work available
immigrants blamed
Prepared to work in bad conditions
Employed as strikebreakers

Question 14

economic fears A

Answer 14

‘American jobs’ kept for Aamericans
Stealing jobs
Trade unions angered
Erode base of foundation
Literacy test to only allow intelligent to enter

Question 15

economic fears A+

Answer 15

Jobs immigrants had were not Nativist jobs
Employers happy to employ as they could pay lower wages and rely when Nativists went on strike

Question 16

economic fears E

Answer 16

Hugh Brogan explains government had a law that prevented US from striking. Americans turned anger towards immigrants who were seen as driving these conditions down

Question 17

fear of revolution KU

Answer 17

1917 russian revolution and communism
Feared immigrants from east would bring it
‘Red Scare’ and ‘Palmer Raids’
Targeted individuals presumed to support

Question 18

fear of revolution A

Answer 18

Kept in appalling conditions = abused, forced to sign confessions
Fear of revolution was important anti-immigrant stance
600 people deperoted
Prevent significantly

Question 19

fear of revolution A+

Answer 19

May Day false which humiliated Palmer
11,000 police worked 32 hours straigt wating on the day which was predicted
Lost faith as scare of revolution exaggerated

Question 20

fear of revolution E

Answer 20

Grant explains Palmer Raids too far
Events such as bombing of wall street “no longer sent them running to check for redds under the bed” FOR not that big of a public issue
Stereotype of all immigrants being revolutions is what called for the change in attitude