For Friday, please read chapter 10 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?
- Check out today's NY Times op-ed article on modern Nativism.
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