Changes in the conditions of immigrants in the new nations: US Keturah Adair
●Federalist party: fearful of French immigration after the French Revolution ●1795: Congress passed stricter Neutralization Act; immigrants must live in US 2-5 years to be a citizen ●1798: Federalists took power, changed it to 14 years, then passed Alien Enemies Act, Friends Act, and Alien Sedition Act ●1800: new Democratic Party (under Thomas Jefferson) eliminated the acts b/c they were unconstitutional; brought citizenship to 5 years
●usually of Scandinavian, Briton, or German descent ●typically English speaking, literate, and Protestant or Jewish-- expect Irish Catholics Irish Immigrants ●welcomed into rural towns and communities ●found work easily
1830s ●Chinese immigrants came to the west coast ●lured in by Gold Rush ●helped build transatlantic train tracks ●25,000 Chinese immigrants by 1850
anti-immigration ●many American born Anglo-Saxon Protestants: anti immigration ●influx of immigrants: competition for work ●Irish Catholics received religious discrimination
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