Effect of immigration in the 1920s

Question 1

What came with each new wave of immigration?

Answer 1

Waves of hostility

Question 2

Why were there waves of hostility?

Answer 2

Rise in competition for everything

Question 3

What was there rise in competition in?

Answer 3

Jobs, housing

Question 4

What was the focus on 1920s Immigration acts on?

Answer 4

Europe and Asia

Question 5

Who did the quota system not apply to?

Answer 5

South America

Question 6

Why did South American immigration increase in the 1920s?

Answer 6

The need to fill cheap labour in California and Texas

Question 7

What were cheap labour jobs?

Answer 7

Agriculture, mining, railroad buildings

Question 8

How did employers exploit immigrants?

Answer 8

Through fear of deportation
- Little pay, poor living and working conditions

Question 9

When did officials begin to deport Mexican workers and why?

Answer 9

Once depression hit as Americans lost homes and migrated to Cali in search of work

Question 10

How many estimated Mexicans were deported during the Depression?

Answer 10

400,000