Immigration And Plantation Life Flashcards
(20 cards)
What’s the masters and servants act?
Past by the government
It’s an approval to import as contract laborers
What is contract ?
A legal agreement between two or more people or groups
What role did sugar play in Hawaii from 1990-1041?
It continued to dominate Hawaiian economy
What was the board of immigration ?
Policies for recruiting or establishing laborers into services
What does it mean that sugar production was a labor intensive industry?
Means it requires plenty workers to do a task that had to be done to produce sugar
To build the sugar industry
When was immigration major factor in Hawaii ?
1855-1930
What’s cultural conflict?
When long time and new comers have battle with each other
Where did most Hawaiian immigrants come from?
Asia
What’s cultural pluralism?
The idea that different cultures maintain their own ways side by side within the same society
What’s the center of plantation?
Sugar mill
What’s stereo type?
Over simplified idea of someone’s culture or any one/ thing
What became a major problem in the plantation ?
Labor shortage
Local culture?
Sandwich between ethnic identity and American identity
Reasons why some immigrants have come to America?
Escape war
Famine
Religious persecution
Ethnocentrism?
When you think you’re culture is da best
What’s the “melting” process and what is another name for it?
It means a mix of all different religions,cultures Etc..Americanization
Assimilation
What’s a native born American ?
People born in the US but not indigenous
What replaced the melting pot?
Salad bowl
What’s prejudice ?
Unfair; when you prejudge someone
What’s scapegoating?
I accurately blaming someone for your problems
