Thursday, September 27

[2Justin]

We continued the 7-1 presentation

1. the annexation of hawaii in 1898 increased the amount of japanese and in 1907 30,00 left japan to come to the us
   
   1. by 1920 200,000 lived in the west coast
2. 1880 to 1920 about 260k immigrants came from the west indies
   
   1. left because of scarce jobs
   2. in 1910 about 7% of the population of mexico at the time came over
3. by the 1870s most immigrants traveled in steamships
   
   1. most in steerage
   2. sleep in louse infected areas and share toilets
4. Ellis island
   
   1. inspected immigrants
   2. 20% detained for a day or more
   3. had to pass a physical
5. Angel island
   
   1. basically ellis island not
   2. 50,000 chinese came to America this way
6. Rise of nativism
   
   1. favoritism towards native-born americans
   2. bill requiring literacy test for immigrants in 1897