HIST 264- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 116 pages long!)
4 Dec 2017
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HIST 264
FINAL EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
What is immigration history?
i. The US is unique in its immigration history. No other nation compares to the US in sheer numbers of
populations.
ii. Immigration continually shapes the US today.
Major Themes:
1. What are the forces of mass immigration?
a. push and pull factors
(i.e.: potato famine: pull factor: job opportunity in the US, push factor: poverty and starvation stemming from
famine)
2. What was the immigrant experience in the US?
a. how were the conditions of living and for labor that was available to immigrants
3. What are the reactions of native-born Americans to newcomers?
a. xenophobia
b. anti-immigrant sentiment
c. racism and discrimination
d. the dislike for change
4. How did the legislation regarding immigration continually change?
a. laws regarding specific groups of people
b. original open-door policy
c. quota system
5. What were the great internal migrations of African Americans?
a. slavery (forced migration) - changed the US more than other waves of immigration
b. the Great Migration- african americans migrate from the South to the North (urbanism)
Some Notions that Hold True Over Time:
1. Immigration is selective, not representative.
a. immigration has life cycles.
2. Immigration is more likely to happen at certain times of the life cycle.
a. young adults are most common
3. Immigrants often come in streams - "Chain Migration"
a. Chain migrations: coming from one place, then going to another.
b. follows by concentrations of ethnicities
c. entire communities migrating
4. Not all immigrants stay, there are also counter-streams.
a. some come to US with the intention to make money and then go back.
b. others that cannot go back to where they came from. (i.e.: political refugees)
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Early English Settlers: The Jamestown Colony (1607)
I. PERMANENT BRITISH SETTLEMENTS
1. Roanoke (the 'Lost Colony')
1. How did they get lost? Theories:
1. They got fed up and tried to go back on their own to Britain
2. They moved inland and then all died.
3. Complete Integration into native tribes
2. Chesapeake Bay
1. Location of Jamestown: refuge for catholic immigrants
2. Maryland: religious tolerance for christians
3. Grew, attracted many peoples
4. Young, adventurous men
3. Massachusetts Bay
1. Plymouth: Founded by puritans (another religious minority).
2. Differed in a lot of ways from jamestown (in terms of demographics.)
3. Families came.
II. JAMESTOWN'S FOUNDING
1. The Virginia Company (joint stock) -
1. decided to make profit in the New World. Making money is primary goal
2. Secondary Goal: missions.
3. Gems were what they were expecting
2. The people that went in to the Chesapeake area (first 101 people)- Adventurers
1. Captain: John Smith.
2. Demographics of people:
1. Young men
2. Unskilled laborers (youngest sons of farmers, etc)
III. LOCATION OF JAMESTOWN:
1. Chose because:
1. Defense against the Spanish, so inland area.
2. Easy Access to sea in spite of inland location.
2. But! it's a SWAMP.
1. Swampy, mosquito-ridden, salt-water area is not good because
1. mosquitoes carry West Nile
2. Salt-water area is difficult to live in for crop
3. Powhatan Confederacy (the native tribe that lives there already)
1. Daughter: Pocahontas
IV. STARVING TIMES
1. 9 months later, only 38 people remained of the 105.
1. Great majority died of starvation.
2. People are dying not only of starvation, but of dysentery (they displayed signs of anorexia, and was
near-starvation if not dead of starving)
3. Traded with Powhatans
1. Food for weapons.
2. Natives could have killed, but didn't, and decided to help.
4. 1609: 600 New recruits
1. 500 men, 100 women (was planning to make a permanent settlement, so wanted to populate)
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Document Summary
What is immigration history: the us is unique in its immigration history. No other nation compares to the us in sheer numbers of populations: immigration continually shapes the us today. Jamestown"s founding: the virginia company (joint stock) , decided to make pro t in the new world. Early english settlers: plymouth and massachusetts bay: reasons for leaving europe (push factors, economics there was an economic recession. Population boom - more people, less jobs to go around lack of opportunity: political turmoil. There were people that had problems in monarchy: Successors increased persecution of puritans at this time, james is more in favor of the high rituals of the church. Political turmoil ties into this: nding that there"s no place in society for them, more unrest there is also worse living conditions crime rates skyrocketing lack of opportunity this all is god"s wrath. 102 charters were bought by puritans in 1620. However storm veers them o course; landed in cape cod.
