Immigration

melting pot

people from different countries 'blending' together

open door policy

accepting immigrants from various countries

push factors

reasons people want to leave their own countries

pull factors

factors that attracted people to the USA

Ellis Island

70% of immigrants arrived at Ellis Island in NYC

WASP

White Anglo Saxon Protestant

red scare

concern regarding the spread of communist and socialist ideas

xenophobia

dislike of, or prejudice against people from other countries

communism

system where property is owned by community and everyone is equal

Palmer raids

series of arrests of thousands of suspected communists

literacy test, 1917

a series of writing and reading tests - if immigrants failed they were refused entry

emergency quota act, 1921

restricted number of immigrants from a country to 3% of total people from that country living in US in 1910

the national origins act, 1924

cut the quota down to 2%

immigration act, 1929

made 1924 quotas permanent and restricted immigration to 150k a year

who were sacco

Sacco and Vanzetti were 2 Italian immigrants who underwent a biased trial for robbery and murder in which they were both executed (now we think they were innocent)

who is Uncle Sam

fictional person who represents the U.S. or U.S. government