Immigration

What was the name of the American policy to allow immigrants to arrive easily?

Open Door Policy

Why did America adopt the Open Door policy in the early 1900s?

To provide workers and to populate.

What was the name for the idea of different nationalities blending together?

Melting Pot

What percentage of immigrants arrived at Ellis Island?

70%.

What was the immediate experience of most immigrants?

More poverty.

Why did America restrict immigration during the 1920s?

Enough workers, racial intolerance, religious prejudice, Red Scare.

In what year was a Literacy Test for immigrants introduced?

1917.

The 1921 Emergency Quota Act limited immigration to how many per year?

357,000.

The Immigration Origins Act of 1924 limited immigration to how many per year?

150,000.

Immigration was difficult unless you came from where?

Northwest Europe.

In 1919, a bomb went off which damaged the home of whom?

Mitchell Palmer, the Attorney-General.

How many died due to a bomb exploding on Wall Street in September 1920?

38.

Who did people blame for the bombing incidents?

Communists and Anarchists.

Mitchell Palmer organized what in response to the bombings?

The Palmer Raids.

How many suspected socialists and anarchists were arrested in the Palmer raids?

6000.

Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested in May 1920 for what?

Armed robbery and murder.

As Italian and self-confessed anarchists, Sacco and Vanzetti's trial became about what?

Their radical ideas.

How many witnesses for the prosecution turned up to S&V's case?

61.

How many witnesses for the defense turned up to S&V's case?

107.

Who was the 'narrow-minded', xenophobic judge?

Judge Thayer.

When did Sacco and Vanzetti die after being found guilty and sentenced to death?

August 1927.