Immigration

• Why did people want to emigrate to America?


  Wanted a fresh start, to meet up with friends and family who had already emigrated, to live the dream of wanting to own their own property and land, to escape religious and political persecution, to escape poverty and to escape a war-torn Europe.
• What is the literacy test and when was it introduced?

  All immigrants had to pass a literacy test in English and 1917
• What is the Emergency Quota Act and when was it introduced?

  Introduces a 3% quota based upon the total population of each ethnic group. It allowed 357,000 people to enter. It was introduced in 1921.
• What is the National Origins Act and when was it introduced?

  The National Origins Act cut the quota to 2% based on the 1890 census. This allowed more people from northern Europe to enter. It was introduced in 1924.
• What is the Immigration Act and when was it introduced?

  This restricted immigration to 150,00 per year. No Asians were allowed, Northern and western Europeans were allocated 85% of places. It was introduced in 1929.
• What was the Red Scare?

  Many Americans believed that immigrants would spread communist and anarchist ideas. Other factors contributed and caused a spike in xenophobia.
• How many strikes were there in 1919?

  3,600.
• What bombing happened in 1919 that badly affected a attorney generals house?

  IN 1919, a bombing was planted by an anarchist group which badly damaged the house of attorney general, Mitchell Palmer.
• What was the bombing that was placed in a church in 1919? bombing in Milwaukee that killed 10 people.
• What bombing happened in September 1920?

  An anarchist bomb exploded on wall street killing 38 people.
• What were the Palmer Raids?


  A raid organised by Mitchell Palmer that was a response to the Red Scare. The raids resulted in the arrests of 6000 suspected communists in 36 cities across America. Jews, Catholics and black people were particularly targeted and went several weeks without charge, they were later deported.
• Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?

  Sacco and Vanzetti were two Italian immigrants, who were arrested and accused robbing a shoe factory in which two people died. Their case display's a clear instance of racial discrimination. The jury found them guilty of the robbery and sent them to be executed by electric chair.
• How many people said that Sacco And Vanzetti were not the criminals and how many did?

  107 people said no, 61 people said yes.