Immigration policy to 1924

act authorizing expelling foreigners considered threats, residence requirements for citizenship 5-14 years

Alien and Sedition Acts

first wave of immigration caused by this, caused Irish to come to US

potato famine

secret patriotic society pledged to protect rights of native-born Americans against immigrants and Catholicism

Order of Star-Spangled Banner

other name for Order of the Star-Spangled Banner, because when asked about goals, said they knew nothing

Know-Nothings

some Americans feared that cheap Chinese labor would undermine white workers, referred to that issue as

yellow peril

party organized to rid the country of cheap Chinese labor

Workingmna's Party

act suspending immigration of all Chinese for 10 years, forbad Chinese naturalization

Chinese Exclusion Act

Roosevelt made this agreement with Japan denyning passports to laborers coming to US

Gentleman's Agreement

barring immigration from small Asian countries like INdian, Afghanistaan, Arabia

Immigration Act of 1917

type of immigrants who came from Northern Europe, uually literate, Protestant, skilled workers, learned English, adopted Us culture, assimilated, included Germans, Scandinavians

old immigrants

type of imigrants often illiterate, unskilled, grouped together, kept native cultures, disciminated against, had nonminority religions like Catholicism, Judaism, and Greek Orthodox, included Slavs, Italians, more from southern and eaastern areas

new immigrants

those who couldnot support themselves, needed statement promising support

public charge

law forbading "criminals, paupers, and the insane" from immigrating, prove not "public charge"

first federal immigration law

minimum health requirements in 1891

no people from "loathsome or dangerous contagious disease"

group rejected from immigration besides health or "charity case" reasons

contract laborers

original processing place for immigrants

Castle Garden

Castle Garden

Ellis Island

assasin of anarchist McKinley, caused Congress to ban anarchists and political saboteurs

Leon Czolgosz

This group repeatedly pressured Congress to include literacy test, successful

IMmigration Restriction League

law limiting number of immigrants entering US in any year to 3% of group size in US since 1910, favored Anglo-Saxons and northern Europeans

Emergency Quota Act