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New England- Puritans
Middle Colonies- "bread basket"
Chesapeake- tobacco, farming -
promised to work for masters for certain amount of time to get to America. up until bacons rebellion (1600s)
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b/c of Atlantic Slave trade and bacons rebellion
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tried to limit colonist's movement out west (to limit conflicts between natives) , angered them, led to rev.
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many irish and germans drank, so temperance movement was part of a larger nativist movement
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Trail of Tears, Indian Removal Act
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many immigrants came to America in search of gold, most unsuccessful.
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Against immigrants, especially Irish (NINA) and German
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helped to get people to move out west (manifest destiny)
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Skilled AND unskilled workers, made up of lots of immigrants. lost popularity after Haymarket Square bombing
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excluded all chinese bc ppl feared it took away jobs from "native" Americans
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helped "new immigrants" and laborers navigate their lives (Hull House)
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partly a nativist group, against catholicism and communism
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Japanese could come to America (but would limit it) if US wouldn't put any restrictions
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thousands of African-Americans fled to the north bc of economic opportunities, fear of lynching, and jim crow laws
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after WWI, fear of communism
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'21 and '24, greatly reduced immigration, especially for Asians
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2 immigrants were executed (largely bc of their nationality)
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after WWII, fear of communism
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fled to suburbs bc of IHA, great migration