Immigration (jan 1, 1862 – jan 1, 1898)

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Chinese Immigration
- mining and railroads
- nativism spike
- Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

OLD VS NEW IMMIGRANTS
"Old immigrants"
- northern and western Europe
- Protestant
- literate and skilled
- assimilated
- democratized countries
- not completely poor
"New immigrants"
- southern and eastern Europe
- Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish
- illiterate and unskilled
- reluctant to assimilate
- communist, anarchist, socialist countries
- poor

PUSH FACTORS
- lack of land in Europe
- poverty and difficult lives
- political instability
- religious persecution

PULL FACTORS
- America's ideals
- stories from previous generations
- factory jobs

ELLIS ISLAND

NATIVISM
- racial (not WASPs), economic, political
(radicals), religious

ATTEMPTS TO EXCLUDE
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- American Protective Association (Anti-Catholic
Protestants)
- Literacy Test
- Quota Acts

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