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melting pot

people from different countries 'blending' together

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open door policy

accepting immigrants from various countries

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push factors

reasons people want to leave their own countries

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pull factors

factors that attracted people to the USA

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Ellis Island

70% of immigrants arrived at Ellis Island in NYC

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WASP

White Anglo Saxon Protestant

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red scare

concern regarding the spread of communist and socialist ideas

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xenophobia

dislike of, or prejudice against people from other countries

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communism

system where property is owned by community and everyone is equal

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Palmer raids

series of arrests of thousands of suspected communists

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literacy test, 1917

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

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emergency quota act, 1921

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

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the national origins act, 1924

cut the quota down to 2%

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immigration act, 1929

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

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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)

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who is Uncle Sam

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

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