Chapter 15 Notes

Question 0

What are the pull factors

Answer 0

• Free democratic society
• ability of jobs (industrialism)
• ability of natural resources- gold land
• american letters

Question 1

What are the push factors from Europe

Answer 1

• population growth and hunger
• lack of arable land
• religious persecution- pogroms organized anti Jewish attacks
• Irish potato famine- potato crops failed many were starving

Question 2

An important pull factor that drew Europeans to the United States after the civil war

Answer 2

Availability to farmland

Question 3

Arriving to New York harbor what group was required to go through immigration inspection at Ellis Island.

Answer 3

Only the steerage group

Question 4

What happen to most immigrants ting through Ellis Island

Answer 4

They went allowed to enter the United States

Question 5

What is not a pull factor to come to America

Answer 5

Religious intolerance

Question 6

Thousand of Irish immigrated to America mainly because______

Answer 6

Of potato family

Question 7

Not a push factor to come to America

Answer 7

Cheap travel

Question 8

In 1996 the Statue of Liberty was given to America as a gift from who

Answer 8

France

Question 9

Lazaru’s poem suggest that the United States s the land of opportunity for the :

Answer 9

Downturn

Question 10

What class would be consider education for immigrant children to Americanize

Answer 10

Civics