18-4 Review

Question 1

steerage

Answer 1

A large open area beneath a ship’s deck, often used to house traveling immigrants.

Question 2

assimilation

Answer 2

Process of becoming part of another culture.

Question 3

anarchist

Answer 3

A person who opposes all forms of government.

Question 4

Why immigrants came to America

Answer 4

-Religious freedom
-Political freedom
-Jobs
-New start in life
-Escape wars or persecution

Question 5

Nativism/Nativists

Answer 5

The belief that those born in a country are superior to immigrants.

Question 6

Ellis Island

Answer 6

Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892.

Question 7

Angel Island

Answer 7

Immigrant processing station that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910.

Question 8

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Answer 8

Placed a ban on all new immigrants from China.

Question 9

Problems immigrants faced when arriving in the U.S.

Answer 9

-Nativists didn’t want them to be in the nation or looked down up them
-Finding a job
-Finding a place to live and that was often a tenement
-Some couldn’t speak English