In addition, for Wednesday's class, please read Chapter 2 of American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction, and prepare written answers to the following questions:
- What makes it clear that in post-Gold Rush California, arguments against immigration were racist? (27)
- Which Chinese were barred from immigration by the Chinese Exclusion Act and which were not? (28)
- How did Angel Island differ from Ellis Island? (29)
- What did the 1891 Immigration Act do, and what inspired it? (30)
- Why were Japanese immigrants seen as a threat? What action was taken in 1913? (31)
- Who was White? (32)
- What is the principle of derivative citizenship? (34)
- What was different about immigrants after the 1890s? (35-36)
- What were the three main sources calling for greater immigration restriction after 1890? (37-38)
- What did Eugenicists advocate? (39)
- What were the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 based on? (42-43)
- What were other countries doing? (44)
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