Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Movement in 1910-1920's
- Problem: Nativists feared that immigrants would negatively transform the American society
- Ways that it could
impact America:
- catholic, Orthodox. Jewish
- Wont be loyal
- Threat to jobs
- Communists
- Blamed for slums and crimes
- We can restrict entry by:
- 1924: 25 of 1980
- 1921: 3% of 1910 Census
- Immigration Act of 1917: The Literacy Test. Barred Asiatics
- We can Americanize immigrants already living in America