Chinese Immigration and Great Migration

By sn341297

  • The Panic

    Chinese workers had been taking many jobs on the West coast. The unemployement for americans kept growing and growing to a point in which americans were fed up. This caused the Panic of 1873 including attacks on Chinese and eventually banning Chinese people from owning property and working certain jobs.

  • Chinese Exlusion Act

    This act denied citizenship of Chinese people born in China and prohibited those immigrating for labor.

  • Ellis Island Opens

    Ellis Island was a major immigration station in New York that opened in 1892 and served as the first U.S. soil that European immigratns set foot on. Upon arrival, the immigrants went through a series of physical exams before they were allowed to move int o the nation.

  • Immigration Restriction League

    Wealthy Bostonians tried to pass an act that would require all immigrants to pass a literacy test. This was eventually vetoed by President Grover Cleveland, which turned out to be a good decision allowing for the immigration to spark Industrialization period in th United States

  • Sadie Frowne Recalls Sweatshop Labor

    Frowne was one of the many workers who found a paycheck working in sweatshops. The work was horid. Many people were known to work up to 15 hours a day draining their bodies all day long. The faster they worked the more they were paid.

  • Start of the Great Migration

    African Americans began to migrate from cities in the souther United States to cities in the norther United States. This was an escape from discrimination and living/ working conditions that were very harsh.

  • Committee on Public Information

    President Wilson created this campaign in an effort to gain more support for the war. Many of the people serving in the came out of the orth. This opened up many jobs and boosted the Great Migration even more.

  • Espionage Act

    this act made it illegal for anyone to deface the government. These acts of Treason included writing and printing any abusive language against the United States government. Even acts that would criticize the United States flag were considered illegal under this act.

  • Murder in St. Louis

    White people rampaged through African American neighborhoods attacking and killing people. This was the most brutal of all attakcs because it left 39 people dead.