Monday, April 4, 2016

VSI Chapter Two Reading Questions & Policy Project

Policy Project, due 4/20

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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