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1920s Nativism Flashcards

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6715605545Nativismbeing hostile to immigrants; motivated by ethnic tensions and religious bias0
6715607234know-nothing partyanti-immigration party in 1850s1
6715609161chinese exclusion act1882 act banning chinese immigration2
6715612961american protective association1880s and 1890s group, anti catholic, members won't vote for catholics3
6715615672gentlements agreement1907 agreement with t roosevelt, halted japanese immigration and brought racial tensions to ca4
6715625878kkkin 1920s, members increase drastically, reaction to new immigrants, hates african americans, jews, catholics, immigrants5
6715629185birth of a nationmovie by griffin, first full legnth motion picture in american history, glorifies kkk6
6715633709emergency quota act of 1921restricted the number of immigrants from a country to 3% total people from that country living in the us in 1910. if there were 100 italians in the us in 1910, only 3 can immigrate bc of this act7
6715643028immigration act of 1924cut emergency quota act from 3-2%, used 1890 census instead, which had fewer immigrants, hurt immigration8
6715658706immigrantsliked by business owners,hard to unionize, cheap labor9
6715664520sacco+vanzettitheir personal beliefs of anarchists, draft dodgers, athiests, were used in unfair trails of murder and robbery, lots of people wanted fair treatment, shows nativism10

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