Unit 5 Review

1. Unit 5 Review

2. Unit 5 Review • Old Immigrants – • Northern & Western Europe (Germany, Ireland) • New Immigrants – • Southern & Eastern Europe, Asia – difficult assimilation • Need for cheap labor – • Open policy, no restrictions • Nativism – • Belief in American superiority; anti-immigrant

3. Unit 5 Review • Gentlemen’s Agreement – • 1907; No new Japanese immigration • Chinese Exclusion Act – • 1882; No new Chinese immigration • 1920’s immigration laws – • Limit # of immigrants from S&E Europe – Red Scare • Know Nothing Party – • Anti-immigrant

4. Unit 5 Review • Latin America – • Most recent • Illegal Immigrants – • Mexico – still a problem • Seneca Falls – • Mtg. for women’s rights • The Feminine Mystique – • Careers for women – new women’s movement • Title IX (9) • Equality for women in athletics

5. Unit 5 Review • 19th amendment – • Women right to vote (suffrage) • Susan B. Anthony – • Push for women’s suffrage • Elizabeth Cady Stanton – • Earnings gap – • Has improved, but men still make more • Trail of Tears – • Jackson ignores Worcester v. Georgia

6. Unit 5 Review • Indian Wars 1860 – 1890 • End of Native American resistance – Wounded Knee massacre • Dawes Act – • Attempt to “Americanize” natives – fails • American Frontier • Shifting area of pioneer settlement • Homestead Act - • Free land given to Western settlers

7. Unit 5 Review Reservations – Indians can use tribal language, customs, religion