Monday, September 29, 2014

Chapter Ten Reading Questions

For Wednesday, please read Chapter Ten and be prepared to answer the following questions:

  • What is Nativism and what causes it?
  • What and when were the three discreet phases of anti-immigrant activity?
  • What was the Know-Nothing party?
  • What does the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution establish? Who's left out?
  • Why did the Chinese Exclusion Act pass?
  • What prompted the federal government to take over the administration of immigration?
  • What do you know about Ellis Island?
  • Against whom was most racism directed and why?
  • Was the literacy test effective at barring undesirable immigrants?
  • How did the depression of 1890 and World War I effect public opinion on immigration?
  • How did the quota plan work? who was not subject to it?
  • In 1924, what were some of the conflicts and struggles felt by the relatively prosperous nation?
  • Was a limit on immigration necessary or desirable?

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