1920s Nativism Flashcards

6715605545	Nativism	being hostile to immigrants; motivated by ethnic tensions and religious bias	0
6715607234	know-nothing party	anti-immigration party in 1850s	1
6715609161	chinese exclusion act	1882 act banning chinese immigration	2
6715612961	american protective association	1880s and 1890s group, anti catholic, members won't vote for catholics	3
6715615672	gentlements agreement	1907 agreement with t roosevelt, halted japanese immigration and brought racial tensions to ca	4
6715625878	kkk	in 1920s, members increase drastically, reaction to new immigrants, hates african americans, jews, catholics, immigrants	5
6715629185	birth of a nation	movie by griffin, first full legnth motion picture in american history, glorifies kkk	6
6715633709	emergency quota act of 1921	restricted 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 act	7
6715643028	immigration act of 1924	cut emergency quota act from 3-2%, used 1890 census instead, which had fewer immigrants, hurt immigration	8
6715658706	immigrants	liked by business owners,hard to unionize, cheap labor	9
6715664520	sacco+vanzetti	their personal beliefs of anarchists, draft dodgers, athiests, were used in unfair trails of murder and robbery, lots of people wanted fair treatment, shows nativism	10