Cause and Effect on Immigrants in the U.S.
Benefits:
1. Immigrants will do work that people in the host country won’t do.
2. Migrants will work cheaper and for longer for less pay, even though this is debatable, this will help the country
3. Help the diversity of the country or nation
4. Can help the economy if they were educated in their other country
Drawbacks:
1. Have to work for cheap
2. Attracts criminal elements such as drugs
3. Racism
4. Immigrants often face obstacles such as nativism which is when the native born are favored over those coming to the country.
5. Restrictions were placed on immigrants such as most of them lived in row houses and tenements. The houses were multi-family urban dwellings that were overcrowded and unsanitary. The Chinese Exclusion Act limited what Chinese immigrants could get a chance to get into the country.
1. Immigrants will do work that people in the host country won’t do.
2. Migrants will work cheaper and for longer for less pay, even though this is debatable, this will help the country
3. Help the diversity of the country or nation
4. Can help the economy if they were educated in their other country
Drawbacks:
1. Have to work for cheap
2. Attracts criminal elements such as drugs
3. Racism
4. Immigrants often face obstacles such as nativism which is when the native born are favored over those coming to the country.
5. Restrictions were placed on immigrants such as most of them lived in row houses and tenements. The houses were multi-family urban dwellings that were overcrowded and unsanitary. The Chinese Exclusion Act limited what Chinese immigrants could get a chance to get into the country.
Cause: Effects:
Immigrants needed jobs:
Work for little money and Do the jobs nobody wants to do which the economy kept functioning. It went to urban places which made up the industrial pool. This helped make industries like steel, coal, automobile, textile, and garment production. These industries helped make the US one of the top economic countries.
Americans didn't want Chinese taking their jobs:
The U.S. enacted a law that prohibited all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials from entering the United States
The Chinese Exclusion Act
-loss of jobs
-discrimnation
-loss of jobs
-discrimnation
Chinese were not allowed into the country unless they fit certain traits. THere were less Chinese. Many paper sons were created.
Immigrants looked for neighborhoods of the same ethnicity:
-no welfare
-relied on churches and neighborhoods
-no welfare
-relied on churches and neighborhoods
As a result, ethnic neighborhoods with names like “Little Italy” and “Chinatown” became common in American cities.
United States wanted to better control immigrants:
-Ellis Island
-Angel Island
-Contol flow
-Ellis Island
-Angel Island
-Contol flow
Congress began to pass laws to restrict immigration. They placed taxes on new immigrants and banned specific groups, such as certain religious groups and people with diseases. Descriminated against asians and allowed more Europeans in.
Effect of overall Immigration:
1790 ---> Set a rule for naturalization by setting the residence requirement at two years.
1819 ---> Made the continuing reporting of immigration to the United States
1875 ---> Established by a law that prohibited entry of prostitutes and convicts.
1882 ---> Chinese could not enter the country except teachers, merchants, students, tourists, and government officials.
1907 ---> A bill increased the head tax on immigrants, and added people with physical or mental defects or tuberculosis and children unaccompanied by parents to the exclusion list. Japanese immigration became restricted.
1916 ---> illiterates, persons of psychopathic inferiority, men as well as women entering for immoral purposes, alcoholics, stowaways, and vagrants were added to the exclusion list.
1819 ---> Made the continuing reporting of immigration to the United States
1875 ---> Established by a law that prohibited entry of prostitutes and convicts.
1882 ---> Chinese could not enter the country except teachers, merchants, students, tourists, and government officials.
1907 ---> A bill increased the head tax on immigrants, and added people with physical or mental defects or tuberculosis and children unaccompanied by parents to the exclusion list. Japanese immigration became restricted.
1916 ---> illiterates, persons of psychopathic inferiority, men as well as women entering for immoral purposes, alcoholics, stowaways, and vagrants were added to the exclusion list.
