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| the large-scale introduction of manufacturing; use of machines; de-skilling; emergence of new industries (chemical, oil, rubber/iron, steel/railroads/metalworking/mining) |
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| migration of American people to urban areas of countries where lots of jobs were; Black men and women migrated to urban areas to escape oppression of South; immigration was the source of lots of urban growth |
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"old" immigrants = ireland, england, germany, scandanavia
"new" immigrants = italy, russia, poland, eastern europe, jews
chinese immigrants mostly lived in california
immigrant workers became backbone of american economy |
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people who favor the interests of established inhabitants over immigrants; wanted immigration to be restricted by nationality
Emergency immigration act (1921)--annual immigration from any country could not exceed 3 percent of the number of persons of that nationality who had been in US since 1910 |
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| the policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other area |
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