https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh en-us 2022-09-14 05:33:04 UTC 2025-10-23 11:13:02 UTC hello@padlet.com tateschwerin https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh/wish/2295726820 Using Ellis Island on the east coast and Angel Island on the west, they scanned immigrants for whatever requirements and quotas were set by the government.
This affected all new immigrants coming to the United States
Created to screen for unwanted immigrants and to try and hold back the tide of immigration]]> 2022-09-14 05:43:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh/wish/2295726820 tateschwerin https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh/wish/2295731238 Halted Chinese immigration for ten years and kept Chinese people living in the U.S from obtaining citizenship.
First among laws formed by increasing anti-immigrant ideals]]> 2022-09-14 05:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh/wish/2295731238 tateschwerin https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh/wish/2295733879 A special commission set up by Congress to investigate social problems caused by a lack of assimilation. 
Generally affected all immigrants]]> 2022-09-14 05:50:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh/wish/2295733879 tateschwerin https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh/wish/2295735992 Brought in to require that all immigrants could speak English. Spawned after fears of enemy or communist infiltrators. 
Affected immigrants who couldn't speak English]]> 2022-09-14 05:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh/wish/2295735992 tateschwerin https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh/wish/2295739797 The Sedition Act was used to clamp down on anti-American ideas and views. The Alien Act gave the government the power to deport anyone who had been a 'member of any anarchist organization.' 
Both were fueled by anti-immigrant sentiments
Generally affected all immigrants, particularly effecting anarchists]]> 2022-09-14 05:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh/wish/2295739797 tateschwerin https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh/wish/2295743590 Used to reduce immigration from eastern Europe. Stipulating an annual maximum of 3 percent of people from any country who were living in the US at the time of the 1910 census. This law also applied to Italians, Poles (Catholics), and Russian Jews. Restricted immigration to 350,000 people a year with exceptions for certain professions such as nurses, actors, lecturers, and doctors. Essentially outlawed the unskilled.
Created out of a reactionary desire to return to a culturally homogenous America.
Affected southern and eastern Europeans.  ]]> 2022-09-14 05:59:49 UTC https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh/wish/2295743590 tateschwerin https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh/wish/2295753598 Tightened restrictions set in 1921. Only allowed for 2 percent and was based on the 1890 census. Also completely excluded Chinese and Japanese immigrants altogether.
Once again fueled by conservative protestant backlash over new ideas brought by immigrants
Continued to affect southern and eastern Europeans as well as Japanese and Chinese immigrants]]> 2022-09-14 06:08:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh/wish/2295753598 tateschwerin https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh/wish/2295761836 A coalition of low-income urban groups brought in by FDR's New Deal. A coalition of African Americans, unionists, religious and ethnic minorities who recently immigrated. This democratized the lives of these often oppressed groups of people. ]]> 2022-09-14 06:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tateschwerin/ye96wvv09w8ysuoh/wish/2295761836