Immigration: Objectives
After you have completed this section, you will be able to:
- Identify home countries of large immigrant groups at the turn of the twentieth century.
- Explain efforts to assimilate immigrants into American culture.
- Analyze social issues brought on by a mass integration of immigrants into society and the Great Migration of African-Americans to Northern cities.
- Examine American sentiment toward the second great wave of immigrants.
- Identify reasons for a growing middle class.
- Examine the plight of individuals living in extreme poverty at the turn of the century.
- Define the following terms:
- Ellis Island
- Newlands National Reclamation Act
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- American Protective Association
- Immigration Restoration Act
- Web Alien Land Law
- U.S. Immigration Act of 1907
- Middle class
- American Medical Association