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Immigration
- Reasons to emigrate
- Jobs and wages
- Tolerance
- Booming industries
- Opportunities
- Better education
- New ventures
- Religious freedom
- Escape from the pogroms of Russia
- Escape from the pogroms of Russia
- Basic human rights
- Land available for farming
- Jobs and wages
- Opposition to immigration
- Immigrants were thought to be responsible for
drunkenness and prostitution
- Ghettos develop
- New immigrants may take jobs and work
for low wages
- Immigrants were thought to be
responsible for increase in
crime
- Americans feared that immigrants may bring
dangerous political beliefs like communism
- Immigrants from Germany increased in WW1
- The more established immigrants from Ireland and
Germany looked down on the new comers from
Europe and Italy
- Immigrants were thought to be responsible for
drunkenness and prostitution
- Measures
- Literacy Test 1917
- Had to write a short passage in English
- Many poor people from Eastern Europe could not afford
English lessons
- Had to write a short passage in English
- Emergency Quota Act 1921
- Immigrants were allowed in as a proportion of the number of people
that were already there, of the same nationality (3%)
- Immigrants were allowed in as a proportion of the number of people
that were already there, of the same nationality (3%)
- National Origins Act 1924
- Immigrants were allowed in as a proportion to the number of people that were
already there, of the same nationality but based on the 1890 census
- Immigrants were allowed in as a proportion to the number of people that were
already there, of the same nationality but based on the 1890 census
- Immigration Act 1929
- Restricted immigration to 150,000 per year
- No Asians at all
- Restricted immigration to 150,000 per year
- Americanisation
- Americanisation day to make immigration more American
- Lots of flag waving and singing the nation anthem
- Americanisation day to make immigration more American
- Literacy Test 1917
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