Old immigrants, such as the British, are settlers that came to the Americas, mostly from western and northern Europe, mostly from England and English territories. Firstly, old immigration they came to the Americas as families or groups and were literate and skilled. Moreover, old British immigrants came to the Americas for a wide variety of reasons such as political, social, and economic reasonings. The political reasoning would be because they would have freedoms. Socially they would have their religious freedom and economically they would be able to own more land. Consequently, the old British immigrants faced the early roots of nativism. Nativism is a return to or emphasis on traditional or local customs, in opposition to outside influences. Even though they faced nativism they had a big part in shaping America such as new ideas, skills, and cultures. New immigration made the Americas become a nation of immigrants. Every American is either an immigrant or has ancestors who were immigrants. Italians are a part of new immigration and they are different from old immigrants by the fact they lacked the skills that the old immigrants had and other factors. Also, the Italians came over mainly for economic purposes politically, socially, and economically. Firstly, they came over for political reasons such as seeking refuge from religious oppression by the government. Secondly, the Italians left their homeland because of the social mobility of “rag to the riches.” On another note “rags of the riches” was when someone who was very poor becomes rich. Lastly, Italians came over for economic reasons such as being getting employment even though the pay was lower and they did not get the same opportunities as the american workers. Consequently, they face many problems when coming the Americas such as discrimination and unfair pay. The Italians and other new immigrants coming to the americas helped shape the Americas to what they have become today. Therefore, the americas have become a multicultural society with a variety of different languages, foods, ideas, and much more. African American immigrants had a major impact on the Americas.
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They were different from all the other immigrants due to the fact they were once considered slaves and their skin was darker than the other immigrants. Also, African American immigrants came for employment and freedoms. Consequently, they faced major problems like discrimination and even laws preventing them to do certain things. They also helped shaped America when they came over with ideas such as different foods and different types of music and also culture.
The Literacy Test (1917) was a test to make sure only certain people could get into the USA. If you were classified as an idiot, imbecile, epileptic, alcoholic, poor, criminal, beggar, person suffering attacks of insanity, those with tuberculous, and those who have any form of dangerous contagious disease you were not going to be able to get into the USA. The Literacy Test was all about discrimination against immigrants by not allowing people into the country because of the problems listed above. The Literacy Test had a huge affect on immigration making it harder for immigrants to get into the US. The Gentlemen’s Agreement (1907) was an informal agreement between the United States and the Empire of Japan agreeing that the United States of America would not impose restriction on Japanese immigration. Even though this agreement was active Japanese immigrants still faced discrimination because of their language and physical features. Also, this agreement helped Japanese immigrants a lot by not giving them the same rules/laws that applied to other immigrants. The McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 was An act to revise the laws relating to immigration, naturalization, and nationality; and for other purposes. This act made it to where immigrants could not come in if they were enemies in WWII and if you were communist. By denying immigrants that have associated or came from a country that believed in communism weren't allowed in the US because they wanted to block any spread of communism from outside post WWII countries, also denying any enemies of the US during WWII such as Japan and favor countries like China. This made discrimination big because immigrants would get discriminated on
They were different from all the other immigrants due to the fact they were once considered slaves and their skin was darker than the other immigrants. Also, African American immigrants came for employment and freedoms. Consequently, they faced major problems like discrimination and even laws preventing them to do certain things. They also helped shaped America when they came over with ideas such as different foods and different types of music and also culture.
The Literacy Test (1917) was a test to make sure only certain people could get into the USA. If you were classified as an idiot, imbecile, epileptic, alcoholic, poor, criminal, beggar, person suffering attacks of insanity, those with tuberculous, and those who have any form of dangerous contagious disease you were not going to be able to get into the USA. The Literacy Test was all about discrimination against immigrants by not allowing people into the country because of the problems listed above. The Literacy Test had a huge affect on immigration making it harder for immigrants to get into the US. The Gentlemen’s Agreement (1907) was an informal agreement between the United States and the Empire of Japan agreeing that the United States of America would not impose restriction on Japanese immigration. Even though this agreement was active Japanese immigrants still faced discrimination because of their language and physical features. Also, this agreement helped Japanese immigrants a lot by not giving them the same rules/laws that applied to other immigrants. The McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 was An act to revise the laws relating to immigration, naturalization, and nationality; and for other purposes. This act made it to where immigrants could not come in if they were enemies in WWII and if you were communist. By denying immigrants that have associated or came from a country that believed in communism weren't allowed in the US because they wanted to block any spread of communism from outside post WWII countries, also denying any enemies of the US during WWII such as Japan and favor countries like China. This made discrimination big because immigrants would get discriminated on