Immigration

W

White

A

Anglo

S

Saxon

P

Protestant

‘m

Men

• Before 1885

• North + Western Europe

• Denmark, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Finland,

• China, Mexico(Exceptions)

• Most Fit into W.A.S.P.’m

• After 1885

• Southern + Eastern Europe

• Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Estonia, Albania, Serbia, Croatia

• Don’t usually fit into W.A.S.P.’m

→What makes you want to leave your country?

• Bad Economy

• War

• Famine-Little food(Example is the Irish Potato Famine)

• Persecution-Treat Badly (An example is the pogroms in Russia to try to remove Jewish people)

• Racial Persecution

• Religious Persecution

• Ethnic Persecution(Ethnic Cleansing)

• Drought

→What makes you want to go to a new country (US)

• Jobs

• Economy-The streets are filled with gold

• Land

• Safety

• Freedom

• Opportunity

• “The US doesn’t guarantee anything other than opportunity”