changing attitudes towards immigration Flashcards
From its earliest days, the united states styled itself as a refuge for immigrants. As Emma _______ wrote the US welcomed the “ huddled masses _________ to breathe free “.
lazarus
yearning
A movement for immigration __________ led by men such as _________ hall started to gain support. Many Americans across all classes began to believe that immigration ____________ the nation and that it needed to stop or at least be _________ reduced.
restrictions
prescott
threatened
drastically
many ______ Americans were shocked by the findings of the ____________ and began to call for tighter controls on immigration. for example, there was growing support for some form of a ________ test to stop “ _______ “ immigrants from coming to the US
WASP
Commission
literacy
inferior
Growing support for immigration__________resulted in a series of ____ limiting who was allowed to come to the United States. This began as early as _____with the _______ extraction act.
restrictions
laws
1882
chinese
round the same time, the __ ____ ____ was reborn and expanded its target from black Americans in the south to include new immigrants. The klan was opposed to immigrants on both _______and religious grounds.
ku klux klan
racial
Immigrants in American cities tended to group together and form their own __________ which could be quite _______ from areas where other Americans live. These ‘______’ were named things such as ‘little Italy and ‘_______’.
communities
separate
ghettos
chinatown
in part, because they lived in such _____ conditions in the most_______ areas of American cities, immigrants were often blamed for the outbreaks of ________diseases which were common in the early 20th century. New York regularly had to deal with epidemics of smallpox,________, and tuberculosis.
poor
deprived
infectious
cholera
sharp rise in crime during these years was primarily because of the introduction of prohibition in _____. Some immigrants did take the advantage of the situation and got involved with_______ crime, but the idea was that immigrants were disposed of. For example, al ________
1920
organised
capone
fears of growing __________ and the potential for revolution in the us were given substance by a_______ of strikes that spread through the country not long after WW1. the strikes started in______ in Jan 1919 when ______shipyard workers walked out.
radicalism
series
seattle
35000
at the same time as the strikes, _______ terrorists carried out a _________ bombing campaign against prominent government officials. On june 2nd_____, bombs were set off at the same time across _______different countries. One target was the attorney general.
anarchist
coordinated
1919
seven
When world war I ended, many were left without jobs, with unemployment rising from ___% to 11.7%. Many Americans made a connection between this ____ level of unemployment and the influx of _________‘new immigrants’. They feared that if this continued as it was it would become more difficult for Americans to find employment.
5.2
high
unskilled
as well as being accused of ________ jobs by out-competing American workers, immigrants were also blamed for the _______ standard of living. They believed that if immigrants accepted lower wages this would _____ down wages for Americans.
stealing
lowering
drive
