Immigrants in America

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• Why do you think immigrants from Germany and Ireland settled in the United States in different places?
• What is the main reason Jewish immigrants were in a better position to be successful in New York in the late 18905 than Italian or Irish immigrants?
• What were Ellis Island and Angel Island? What happened at these locations?
• What happened at Haymarket Square on May 4, 1886?
• What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act?
• Why did many immigrants tolerate difficult living and working conditions?
• How did the influx of new immigrants from Germany and Ireland affect circumstances in the American workplace?
• What happened at immigration centers?
• What was the basic purpose of the Emergency Quo Act of 1921, the Immigration Act of 1924 and the National Origlns Act of 1929?
• What did the Gentleman's Agreement do?
• Why did immigrants support political machines?
• Why did many progressives advocate restricting immigration to the United States?
• What was a hope of people who worked in settlement houses?
• Why did most new immigrants lived in cities?
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• What are some needs to establish a successful City?
• Why did urban populations increase in the United States during the Gilded Age?
• Where did most immigrants come from between 1890 and 1920 to the United States?
• What attracted African Americans and European immigrants to the West?
• What attitudes did most Progressives hold about minorities and immigrant groups?
• Where did large numbers of Scotch-Irish immigrants settle?
• In the late 1800s, why did immigrants to the U.S. settle in cities?
• Why were the tenement apartments crowded?
• What act was passed in the late 1800s to exclude an entire ethnic group?
• What are some reasons why immigrants immigrate to the U.S?
• Where did most European immigrants to America in the late 19th century enter the country?
• What is the melting-pot theory?
• What attracted people to cities in the 1800s?