Using the information found in Chapter 7.1 of your book, pages 254 – 259, please answer the following questions, in your notebooks, while working individually.

1. How did the patterns of immigration change for Europeans in the 1890s?

2. Why did the Jews leave Russia? What might have happened to them if they had stayed?

3. Where did the Chinese settle and what kinds of work did they find?

4. Where did the Japanese settle and what kinds of work did they find?

5. Where did Latin Americans tend to settle and what kind of work did they find?  What new changes made this possible?

6. Describe the processing procedure for immigrants arriving at Ellis Island:

7. Contrast the processing procedure for immigrants arriving at Angel Island with that of those arriving at Ellis Island:

8. How did the new arrivals come to see themselves as hyphenated Americans, committed to preserving their own cultures while trying to fit in?

9. What is the melting pot and how did this theory work against immigrants?

10. Explain the beliefs of Nativists and their objections to the immigrants.

11. What was the Immigration Restriction League and what effects did it have on persons trying to come to America?

12. What resulted from the Anti-Asian feeling in America? How were the Chinese affected and how were the Japanese affected?