WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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to stop illegal immigration from Latin America
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to provide highly skilled workers for industry
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to limit the power of urban political machines
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to satisfy nativist prejudice in California
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Detailed explanation-1: -Many Americans on the West Coast attributed declining wages and economic ills to Chinese workers. Although the Chinese composed only 0.002 percent of the nation’s population, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to placate worker demands and assuage concerns about maintaining white “racial purity."
Detailed explanation-2: -Why were there few restrictions on immigration in the 1800s? They were a lot of jobs that needed filled. Wanted immigrants to comeover to fill those jobs. What was a settlement house?
Detailed explanation-3: -Nativists in California in the 1880s would most likely have supported the. assimilation of Native Americans into mainstream culture.
Detailed explanation-4: -What did nativists think about Chinatowns in the late 1800s? Nativists thought Chinatowns were too different from other neighborhoods in cities and should not exist.