AES 150 Final Exam Questions With Correct Answers

America letters - Answer America seen as land of freedom and opportunity Chain migration - Answer People migrate to places with people of their race. That is why Germany, France, Chinese, Japanese seem to be in certain areas Sojourners - Answer Drifting through place to place but loyal to your original place Push-Pull theory - Answer Pull: To attractive or have potential benefits that would bring people in. Push: People wanting to leave due to social or economical problems in that area. Potato famine - Answer Irish having potato failure, caused them to starve and therefore migrate to the US. Was pushed to leave Ireland from the land of famine. Irish American maids - Answer Jobs for Irish women coming to the US. Worked as maids cooking for wealthy families. African American and Irish American tension - Answer Both were working in hard lifestyles and treated unfairly. Draft Riots - Answer Occurred in New York 1863, rioters protested against Abraham Lincoln's Enrollment Act of Conscription. Irish immigrants destroyed stores and targeted mainly blacks to attack. Forty-Eighters - Answer Political Germans migrating to the US in 1848, most who were following revolutions held in Germany. scottsboro boys - Answer Nine African Americans accused of raping two white American women. Ghetto - Answer Italian term for the areas with a lot of Jews. Rotating credit system - Answer Korean kye. This was a lending money system for Korean immigrants. US vs Thind 1922 - Answer Reflecting on Takao Ozawa's case that to be "white" you must be Caucasian. Bhagat Singh Thind challenged that, being that coming from India is Caucasian, the court overruled it still. Loving vs Virginia - Answer Virginia law not allowing interracial marriage. 1967 Lowell's Pemberton Mill - Answer Massachusetts, industrial factory that collapsed killing many workers and most were women and recent immigrants from Ireland. 1860 Tammany Hall - Answer Manhattan 1789, Political force organization in New York, helped immigrants get jobs and services in return to participate in voting elections. Political Machines - Answer A political organization run by an individual or small group that commands for votes to maintain control in the polls. Often given rewards such as jobs and support if done so. Progressives - Answer 1890's-1920, Started as social movement, went to political movement. To bring down corruption by the government and big companies in industrialization. Irish American Labor Union - Answer Irish American laborers who did backbreaking labors and even their own children did sweatshops and mines. Twisting the British Lion's Tail - Answer Slang term for a politician in America in the mid-1800s making negative remarks about the British to his Irish audiences. Know-nothing Party - Answer Anti-immigrants formed in 1840 due to being scared of immigrants taking up all the jobs and services. Hansen's Law - Answer Marcus Lee's law. First generation would still cling to the past culture and pass it on to their newborns. Second generation tries to assimilate into American Identity. Third is fully assimilated but is curious to learn and understand their past cultural backgrounds. Industrial Workers of the World - Answer 1905, Known as Wobblies, a laborer organization fused unskilled and skilled workers to union and work together. populism - Answer To bring down large organizations and have them under local control, or instead of a wealthy elite.