Chapter 26- The Great Wave of Immigration

people who flee their home or countries due to war, persecutions, etc.

refugee

the process by which immigrant or other newcomers acquire the attitudes, behaviors, and cultural pattern of he society around them

assimilation

the act of blaming a person or group for something bad that has happened or that someone else has done.

scapegoat (I had noted it down in the notes bc the sub had mentioned that he saw the quiz and said we should know this term)

All of the following are reasons regarding the growth of immigration EXCEPT:
A.wars
B.religious persecution
C.famine
D.Congress supported the act
E.overpopulation

D.Congress supported the act

What is the name of the island Congress established 1890 and by 1910 it had greeted some six million immigrants?

Ellis

During the examination, what group of people were usually sent back, and where?

People with disease and they would be sent any land they see while going back on the boat.

How long did inspectors have to examine people, and how many questions?

Had a max of 2 minutes, and there were 32 questions.

Where did the majority of new immigrants live and why?

In big cities near industrial centers and ports where jobs were; this was because of need of jobs

What was the living conditions like for the immigrants?

Living conditions for immigrants ranged from uncomfortable, crowded, and dirty, at best, to literally life-threatening, at worst

How was pay like for the unskilled workers?

Had very little poor pay, paid 10 cents an hour or $5.50 a week with children making half that

In 1910, what was the average time factory
workers worked for?

55 hours a week, though 12 to 16 hour days were not uncommon, even for children

At the time, what happened to children who may have gotten injured due to the machines?

They get replaced, with another person, not giving medical attention to the injured.

Where did most immigrants come from to Angel Island?

Mostly Chinese, and Other Asian groups settled at this
time from Japan, the Philippines, etc.

What was the main reason why Chinese immigrants came to the US

Due to California's Gold Rush

What type of jobs did immigrants usually take?

The jobs which native born did not want to take, such as working in textile factories, stockyards, coal mines, and steel mines

Where did most Chinese immigrants settle after arriving to the US through Angel Island?

San Francisco, Chinatown

Where did most Chinese immigrants work?

Railroad constructions

What was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

Chinese immigration was explicitly excluded from the United States

What did the Italians call Ellis Island?

The Island of Tears

Where did most immigrants live in?

Tenement buildings

Who was a well known Italian poet whose work was published in national magazines during this time

Pascal D'Angelo

Why was Jews wanting to immigrant to the US?

Due to their history with the Russians, seeking religious practice in a better place

Which American Jew was an immigrant, who had writing a poem, which gets in a plaque?

Emma Lazarus

What was the term for a deck, which was deep in the ship, which was reserved for the passengers who had paid the lowest fares.

Steerage

What was the term for someone to help many Italian immigrants get unskilled work building sewers, subways, lay fresh bricks for tenement buildings, clean streets, etc?

Padrones

what were crowded buildings which were usually run down, which contained many small apartments?

Tenement buildings

Did Italians celebrate their traditions and if so, why?

Yes and this was because thought they made a decision to leave their country, they wanted to bring memories of their traditions back home, that way their culture is still alive today.

Why did some Italian families not want their children to go to school?

This is because they didn't want their children to learn English, as they feared that it may take them away from their family and their origins.

What was Mary Antin's real name?

Maryusha Antonovksy

Wat was the term for organized and often violent persecutions of minority groups?

pogroms

What was the main reason why Jews had immigrated to America?

This was to help seek religious freedom and being able to raise money to send for families. They wanted to practice their religion where it wouldn't die off.

What was the island in which the Chinese immigrants would go to?

Angle Island

What was the Chinese feeling towards the land; explain the treatement etc.

According to one chinses immigrant, had felt that they were locked up in cages like an animal, for days, weeks, months, or even years.

During the meantime of the Chinese immigrants' stay, what did they do?

They had carved poems on the wooden walls with silverware, talking about their worsen conditions.

What did the Chinese feel about China, and what did the white Americans feel about Chinatown.

The whites had believed it was suspicious place to see "weird faces" and weird food. However, the Chinese ignored them, and felt that it was home.

Before the Mexicans immigrate, what was the condition of Mexico?

People had to worry every second as bullets would be shooting everyone. One person says it felt like a revolution every single day, being impossible to even live or even breathe.

what was a document issued by a citizens home government that identifies a person and permits him or her to travel to other countries?

passports

How did the American employees treat the Mexicans?

They had welcomed them, and replaced the Chinese; had better pay

What was the term for an attitude of superiority and resentment towards the foreign - born?

nativism

As there was more limitations to immigrants entering the US, what was done by Congress to further limit immigration in 1921 and gets refined in 1924?

quota

a limit based on numbers or proportions, such as the proportion of a country's population allowed to immigrate to the United States

quota

What was the term for government documents which allowed people from other nations to enter the country for a limited period of time?

visas

How did the many limitations affect Mexicans?

It did not. However, they did later need passports and visas to enter