1. Aim: How did the United States react to the new wave of immigrants?

2. Nativism
•Nativism: favoritism towards native-born Americans
•Led to anti-immigrant groups and the Know-Nothing Political Party that demanded restrictions on immigration.
•Immigrant Restriction League (1897): required a literacy test for immigrants
•Vetoed by President Grover Cleveland
Apply your knowledge: Do you believe nativism still exists today in the United States? Explain your answer with detail.

3. Political Cartoons

4. Political Cartoons

5. •Congress extended the law in 1892 for another 10 years.
Chinese Exclusion Act
•(1882) Congress passed Chinese Exclusion Act, banning entry to all Chinese except students, teachers, and government officials for 10 years.
•Congress extended the law in 1892 for another 10 years.
•(1902) Chinese immigration restricted indefinitely, until it was repealed in 1943.

6. •(1906) Japanese students put in separate schools in San Francisco.
The Gentlemen’s Agreement
•(1906) Japanese students put in separate schools in San Francisco.
•Japanese protests led to President Theodore Roosevelt’s passing of the Gentlemen’s Agreement ( ): Japanese government agreed to limit emigration of unskilled workers to the U.S. in exchange for the repeal of segregation.

7. Restriction on European Immigration
Emergency Quota Act (1921) - restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States as of the U.S. Census of 1910.
Immigration Act (1924) - limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890.

8. Sum It Up!!!!
How did the United States react to the new wave of immigrants that came between 1850 and 1920?