Key Terms Progressive America The America of the Second Wave 1880 1920 Second wave Eastern Europe Russia Southern Europe Huge Immigration Tens of millions come Get pulled by Industrial Revolution Need unskilled labor for the NEW factories Factories mechanize Pay little AA Irish Germans and Chinese wont do it since it pays so little Recruit immigrants and then get to many Jobs double Numbers Triple the people came Progressives The Progressive Era 1900 1920 Progressives WASPs know what they think is best for the people o Immigrants don t agree Becomes a political party Don t like drinking dirty cities Pass lots of laws trying to make USA better Positives o Make sure your food is safe to eat Meat packing and canning laws o Pass labor laws Help immigrants 5 day work week Child labor laws kids under 10 cant work in factories Negatives is scientific racism Scientific Racism Craniology germ theory IQ tests eugenics Buck vs Bell Intelligence is based on physical characteristics now are scientifically proven based on skull type nose type shows who are more stupid Not fair Try to prove the immigrants are mentally and physically inferior to us Some ways include not really a science Craniology measure skulls checks bumps circumference and decide if you can do a job based on skull size Don t want ape like skull protruded jaw The Germ Theory Immigrants bring sickness to USA it would be perfect if they didn t come All bad diseases come from outside it Venereal Diseases STDs and Splurge move out like an army Smallpox leprosy anything that looks dirty smells Wont touch door nobs wont use same toilets splashing up makes them feel like they will die IQ Tests Original intention was to test intelligence of school children in France Eugenics Wanted to map it Didn t plan on it being the way it was Requirement to get into USA Given in English cant pass if in this language Steps in mental development cartoon Best you can be is a moron Cultural bias asking questions they know nothing about since they don t live here Huge problems with them Scores used to get a job Cant work there way up like the other immigrants in first wave Idea intelligence is hereditary Only smart because of your parents children of immigrants get the inferior gene passed down Creation of the perfect race Ex Hitler believed in Aryan Race Here it is the American Race Try to prove scientifically that we can get rid of inferiors or create perfect Solutions to the immigration problem Positive Eugenics reproduction Always been way America has gone Nice white people should have sex and have lots of white babies so they will always outnumber the others Hope to eventually eradicate the others Negative Eugenics sterilization Stop the inferior from having babies and able to reproduce Forced sterilization against their will They will ruin the United States Primarily female male dominated world Buck Vs Bell Oliver Wendell Holmes Declares this sterilization legal Opinion Three generations of imbeciles is enough Not done as much as positive legal during 2nd wave Ellis Island Ellis Island and Immigration Restriction scientific racism in action Stop immigrants from coming in who are undesirable Sick handicap idiots Operated from 1892 1954 Anybody who wants to come in has to come in through station Sister Ellis island is angel island on west coast Processed over 12 million immigrants study them Count how many people coming in Categorize them Where are they coming specific on N S Form immigration laws from this information try to make best law that they can Check for diseases IQ test germ test Scientific racism also seen in Literacy tests as part of jom crow laws 1890 1910 Chinese exclusion act of 1882 In 1919 prohibition added to the US constitution 18th amendment Immigration Act of 1903 From Ellis Island Give information to nativist know nothing party Immigration act of 1903 Target anarchists Over throw over the government Can be jailed for beliefs No one hated this law Immigration Act of 1917 Immigration act of 1917 Literacy test in order to enter the country In English which don t know if fail could lead to deportation Banned men and women from entering who were 3 D s Dependent Delinquents and Defectives basically everybody undesirable Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924 Quota Acts United States deems what is undesirable The Quota Acts Large scale immigration 1921 Immigration act of 1921 Established quota for how many individuals of a particular immigrants group could enter the country annually Quota 3 pf groups population in the US as of 1910 census Trying to do is get older good immigrants in Germans get a bigger population of them Don t want Jews or Italians since they didn t come in during 1st wave Example 100 here in 1910 census only 3 can come in now Total Number 357 000 GOOD immigrants don t say what good is Have to have a round trip ticket incase they don t want you and deport It is about where you are from or who you are based on origin Immigration act of 1924 Total number is 164 000 Established a harsher annual quota to 2 of 1980 census it removes the 2nd wave completely only certain immigrant groups allowed in But those immigrants aren t immigrating anymore Looks like we are letting people in but really not Barred Asian Immigrants targeting immigrants from Japan and India in Particular Exception to both Laws Mexico Main Caribbean South America or Canada Quotas did not apply to the immigrants from the western hemisphere Many other people move to one of these countries and then go to USA Catching Up with our First Wave Groups Irish Americans Chinese Americans and German Americans Paper Sons Chinese Post Exclusion Act 1906 Earthquake Basically destroys San Francisco Fires city hall burns down which holds records of who is born here People in China start sending over young men 18 years old hit angel island they say I am a citizen show birth certificate which could be fake Paper sons daughters Claim to be the kids of those here Remember its an all male population here Women also start to come at this time Completely coming in undocumented but cant prove All are citizens and can start forming voting blocks and having children Angel Island Chinese Angel Island 1910 1940 Same as Ellis Island Try to prove who is lying United States has no proof that they were not born here because of fires Magnuson Act Chinese Magnuson Act Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act of 1943 Quota says 105 immigrants Do because the Chinese aren t as bad as they were or as bad as
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