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Colonies come to America
New England- Puritans
Middle Colonies- "bread basket"
Chesapeake- tobacco, farming -
Indentured servants
promised to work for masters for certain amount of time to get to America. up until bacons rebellion (1600s) -
Slaves came to US
b/c of Atlantic Slave trade and bacons rebellion -
Proclamation Line
tried to limit colonist's movement out west (to limit conflicts between natives) , angered them, led to rev. -
temperance movement
many irish and germans drank, so temperance movement was part of a larger nativist movement -
Native Americans were pushed west
Trail of Tears, Indian Removal Act -
gold rush
many immigrants came to America in search of gold, most unsuccessful. -
Know Nothing Party
Against immigrants, especially Irish (NINA) and German -
Homestead Act & Railroads
helped to get people to move out west (manifest destiny) -
Knights of Labor
Skilled AND unskilled workers, made up of lots of immigrants. lost popularity after Haymarket Square bombing -
Chinese Exclusion Act
excluded all chinese bc ppl feared it took away jobs from "native" Americans -
Settlement Houses
helped "new immigrants" and laborers navigate their lives (Hull House) -
KKK
partly a nativist group, against catholicism and communism -
Gentleman's Agreement
Japanese could come to America (but would limit it) if US wouldn't put any restrictions -
Great Migration
thousands of African-Americans fled to the north bc of economic opportunities, fear of lynching, and jim crow laws -
1st Red Scare
after WWI, fear of communism -
Immigration Quotas in 1920s
'21 and '24, greatly reduced immigration, especially for Asians -
Sacco & Vanzetti Trials
2 immigrants were executed (largely bc of their nationality) -
2nd Red Scare
after WWII, fear of communism -
White Flight
fled to suburbs bc of IHA, great migration