AMH 2097 1 Pogroms TERMS Russian term meaning wreak havoc to demolish violently Refers to attacks by local non Jewish populations on Jews in the Russian Empire 2 Tenements York s lower East side 3 America letters Narrow Low rise apartment buildings concentrated in New Immigrants from Norway 19th century people in that country already heard about what life was like in US Informative positive letters about US and negative about Norway o Said people is US had many freedoms 4 Elisabeth Koren 5 Mezzogiorno Immigrant 1850 s of Ireland Wrote diaries for what it was like as an immigrant Name for the southern part of Italy Unified as a country that benefited northern part and harmed southern part o Immigrants from the south Related to the factors that pushed the people out of Italy 6 Pick and shovel work The work that Italian Americans did Referred to jobs Italians took in US construction railroads o Term Italians used for their work 7 Gold Mountain Chinese name for California 8 Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta Related to the work of Chinese immigrant work o Made this part of California farmable land began to o Chinese created immense amount of wealth for Cali land grow very fertile owners Usually flooded every spring 9 The Heathen Chinese Written by Brette Harte Chinese hated by US citizens Magazine published this article about the growing animosity between the Irish and Chinese workers in the United States Denis Kearney 10 Related to Chinese massacre in LA San Francisco Spoke at sand Lot o Advocated overthrow of government suggested exterminating Chinese by dropping dynamite in China Town The Grange 11 A social club way for rural people to come together Populist party and famers alliances came from this 12 The Populist Party Also called the people s party Allied themselves with the labor union farmers and the working class The Subtreasury Plan 13 Farmers supported it Populist Plan They felt they were being mistreated by railroads and banks Proposed to have federal gov take over buying and selling of staple crops low interest loans to farmers 14 Mary Elizabeth Lease Member of the populist party Mother of four from Kansas Daughter of Irish catholic immigrants Best known populist speaker in the country o Published The problems of civilization Solved 15 16 Coxey s Army Protest march got arrested for trespassing Immigration Restriction League Founded in 1894 allied themselves with progressives to lobby for literacy law o Immigrants had to be literate in at least one language Discriminatory against eastern and southern Europeans 17 Progressive Movement Muckrakers Had similar goals to the populist group Feared big business and pushed for women s suffrage workers rights labor unions and wanted to change political system o Wanted to make system more fair 18 Margaret Sanger Nurse 1 of 11 children Arrested more than 40 times Addressed birth control and made her own magazine The Woman Rebel Nickelodeons 19 5 cent films people watched Started the beginning of a new era future Advertising changed 20 Chinese Exclusion Act o People began to see young people as a threat to the Restriction on immigration 1882 21 Public Charge Clause Element of immigration law that began in late 19th century Government agents started to examine people as they entered the US Received their right to exclude immigrants based on the possibility they could become a public charge Purpose to exclude immigrants who had no means of support or they thought would use charity mentally ill sexually deviant in 1890 s became a way to deport immigrants Committee on Public Information WWI first time US became involved in changing opinion of the public Tried to build support for WWI o Sent speakers all over the world to convince why war is good 23 Espionage and Sedition Acts Prohibited spying interfering with the draft making statements that might impede military success Crime to make statements critical of the government or war efforts World War I Impact on ethnic minorities in the US AA What sparked the great migration Focus on what happened in US as a result Costa George Najour Immigrant from Syria who petitioned for citizenship Race and citizenship for Syrians today called Lebanon Attorney argued he was non white and therefore ineligible for 22 24 25 citizenship o He ended up winning case 26 Silk Industry important to Lebanon immigrants People became rich because of all the new products they had o Industry plummeted and people couldn t obtain their upscale lifestyles so they started to migrate 27 Peddling Work done by men and women immigrants o Went door to door selling household items such as trinkets linens and spices Sacco and Vanzetti Italian anarchists who believed religion private property etc should be abolished Accused of committing a crime they did not 4 years of appeal process brought attention to the world and mass protests sin Europe Executed in Aug 1927 Ku Klux Klan Extra judicial mob who stopped black political participation in the South Johnson Reed Act European countries Only certain number of people could immigrate per year Banned immigration from Asia Africa and set quotas from o Favored northern and western Europeans Essentially a racist act to encourage migration f northern and western Europeans who were seen as more suitable The Great Migration Movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast Midwest and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970 Welfare Capitalism 1920 s benefit package Louis Adamic 28 29 30 31 32 33 Introduced notion of cultural pluralism o Said immigrants could maintain their culture but be 100 American from life Said to deny your ethnic identity id to try to escape Wrote The Natives Return talked about his return to native country of Slovenia trip reinforced that he felt like an insider and an outsider o Adopted by the majority of Americans after WWII The Great Depression People started to tie economic security into freedom The New Deal Focused on relief recovery and reform President Roosevelt Supporters referred to as liberals 36 Al Smith Democratic candidate for president in 1928 first roman catholic to be nominated for a major party the election was about his catholism rather than American Protestantism Parents were immigrants from Ireland Black Tuesday Huge stock market crash that initiated the Great Depression Market lost 10 billion in 5 hours The Invisible Scar Written on impact of Americans being afraid during the depression Ella
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