AMH2097 Final Exam Study Guide Pogroms Tenement houses America Letters Elizabeth Koren Mezzogiorno Pick and shovel work Gold Mountain Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta The Heathen Chinese Naturalization Act Denis Kearney Riots random attacks in Russia Where Jewish immigrants were housed Had 3 rooms front room kitchen and bedroom No shower or bathroom Minimal light and fresh air Letters Norwegian immigrants sent back to Norway They claimed America was more free and warned that hard work was necessary but anyone who worked hard would be successful in America She and her husband were middle class She was deaf They were unlike most migrants from Norway Her diaries described what they were living like Southern Italy Where most Italian immigrants came from Work that was done by Italian immigrants mostly trades i e construction building roads California where the Chinese immigrants rushed to in search of gold Chinese men cleared the land out so it could be used to grow crops Unknown number of Chinese died during this they made vast profits for the land owners Poem that was published in September of 1873 by Bret Harte It tells a story of two men playing cards shows Chinese man is a crafty cheater and Irish man is a violent cheater Best known poem 1870 it extended citizenship to aliens and persons of African descent but Chinese men were excluded of citizenship in the US Irish Immigrant He spoke at sandlots to thousands he was The Grange The Populist Party Mary Elizabeth Lease violent which won him thousands of supporters Anti Chinese violence Fought unrestrained grain transport practices associations grew rapidly Mostly in the South and Midwest Political solutions came of it i e farmer alliances and farmer corporations A short but very popular political movement regarded politics and money It represented the interest of a very large number of people interracial Sub Treasury Plan Wanted to take banks and large corporations out of the equation entirely Looked to help from the government Wanted to increase supply of money in the US because it would lower the price they had to pay of their debts inflation Born in Pennsylvania mother of 4 moved to Kansas in 1870 to teach at a catholic girl s school where she met her husband who was a pharmacist She joined a variety of organizations such as woman s suffrage Published the book Problems of Society Solved James Coxey Was arrested for trespassing after marching on Washington strike after congress dismissed his request Main goal was to pass a literacy law which required any immigrant to be fluent in at least one language it didn t have to be English The law was passed by congress in 1917 Changes in woman s suffrage workers rights labor unions and the political system Ideas of freedom began to change during this era Freedom to purchase electric irons and vacuums washing machines amusement parks theaters dance halls pop Immigration Restriction League Progressive Movement Coxey s Army culture Social norms changed during this era petting parties men wanted physical intimacy Many technological advancements Feminists came of this era The movement was a double edged sword for women gave them more resources but they were held to higher expectations cleaner clothes and healthier better foods The high expectations were put on women in part by advertisements The progressives supported movements that limited freedom to those who were immigrants and or illiterate Its population grew quickly She was a nurse who introduced radical ideas into the America discourse She said couples had the right to birth control Faced obscenity charges for discussing birth control In 1914 she her own magazine woman rebel writing about woman s rights on birth control Few progressives supported her but she was able to gather a group of radicals and feminists to support her ideas Part of progressive pop culture Place to watch short films Cost was 5 cents cheaper than vaudevilles Stated that any Chinese person who went back to China was not allowed to come back to the US Stated anyone who was likely to become a public charge was banned entry to the US This was a pro war group of whom published posters filmed movies and traveled the world giving pro war speeches The Espionage Act of 1917 prohibited spying interfering with Margaret Sanger Nickelodeons Chinese Exclusion Act Public Charge Clause Committee on Public Information Espionage and Sedition Acts World War I WWI Costa George Najour Silk Peddling Sacco and Vanzetti the draft and making statements that would impede the military Additionally it banned newspapers that were critical of the war or government The Sedition Act of 1918 made speech of government or harmed the war effort illegal The physical war was a battle between England and France and its allies V Germany and its allies The war ended in an English and French victory During the war government and business wanted to work together WWI in US was progressivism on a much larger scale hence why the progressives supported the war He was a 23 year old immigrant from Syria who petitioned the US Government for citizenship in 1909 The question was if he met the racial requirement he argued he was white Christian and a businessman and that he was eligible for full citizenship The court agreed with him By the 1980s Lebanese were selling silk cocoons to the French for use in factories Factories were established in Syria and woman worked in factories which was a very new concept as women were usually restrained to the home Due to the high production Syrians could afford luxuries like sugar and coffee This led to migration Door to door salesman and women who would sell little trinkets and household items Two Italian immigrants who were accused of killing a security guard Believed all government private property should be abolished and that violence was the answer There was no proof they committed the Ku Klux Klan Johnson Reed Act crime they believed they were being processed because of their ethnicity and political views Many protested for the death penalty against them by openly demonstrating for dropping the charges The two men were charged and executed for a crime they didn t commit First appeared in the years of reconstruction to terrorize blacks then reappeared in the 1900s They identified all of those who were not pure Americans as a threat to American liberty Had over 3 million members in 1920 Was passed in 1924 by legislation It established quota system based on the 1890 census
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