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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
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