immigration

• immigrants faced problems such as housing as they lived in slums called ghettos
• immigrants were paid less 10% of the wages of native workers due to doing less skilled jobs
• immigrants were poorly educated and lived in poverty as they still believed in the american dream
• immigrants from Russia suspected of being communist known as the red scare
• by 1920s, immigrants were no longer white Anglo saxon protestants,who brought into the american dream
• 1921 congress passed the emergency quotas act only 3 percent of that nationalities allowed in each year
• The National Origins Act, part of the Immigration Act of 1924, restricted immigration to the United States based on nationality and race1234. It established a quota system that limited the number of immigrants from each country to 2% of that country’s population in the U.S. as of 1890
• 1840-1914 forty million emigrated to the usa
• 1920 twice as many Irish speakers in new york than in dublin
• american values include, the american dream, land of opportunities and manifesting destiny
• the term melting pot refers to immigration of culture in america
• president hoover won the election in 1928
• president believed in laissez faire which means leaving the economy alone and not interfering with it
• 24th of october 1929 the wall street crashed
• us plunged in to economic crisis in 1929, with unemployment rising to 2 million
• hoover was sarcastically critised with slums being described as hoovervilles and newspapers being called hoover blankets.
• people would turn their pockets inside out known as a hoover flag to show their poverty
• 13 milion unemployed between 1929 and 1932, 25 percent of the workforce.
• factory production between 1929-1932 down 45 percent
• breadlines 12,000 free meals a day by 1932
• hoovers response to the crash was rugged individualism
• in 1930 he cut taxes by 130 million
• by august 1932 soldiers marched the capital demanding their war bonus. Hoover responded with deadly force
• Roosevelt won a staggering victory with 42 out of the 48 states voting for him in 1932
• his emergency banking act shut down all banks for 5 days and only reopened the stable ones
• economy act cut the pay of everyone working for the goverment by 15 percent
• saved 1 billion to reinvest into other alphabet agencies
•  Elizabeth had over sixty residences in total and the palaces she visited most frequently were Whitehall, Windsor, Nonsuch, Greenwich and Richmond.