Imigration Vocab

Question 1

Ellis Island

Answer 1

gateway for millions of immigrants to come into the US . Busiest immigration inspection

Question 2

Tenements

Answer 2

a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.

Question 3

Settlement Houses

Answer 3

a neighborhood-based organization that provides services and activities designed to identify and reinforce the strengths of individuals, families and communities.

Question 4

Industrialization

Answer 4

1. the large-scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises, and other productive economic activity into an area, society, country, etc.
   2.
   conversion to the methods, aims, and ideals of industry and economic activity, particularly of an area that was previously underdeveloped economically.

Question 5

Nativism

Answer 5

the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.

Question 6

Jacob Riis

Answer 6

American newspaper reporter, social reformer, and photographer who, with his book How the Other Half Lives (1890), shocked the conscience of his readers with factual descriptions of slum conditions in New York City.

Question 7

Angel Island

Answer 7

Many Chinese immigrants were forced to prove they had a husband or father who was a U. S. citizen or be deported. From 1910-1940, Chinese immigrants were detained and interrogated at Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco Bay.

From 1910-1940, Chinese immigrants were detained and interrogated at Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco Bay. U.S. officials hoped to deport as many as possible by asking obscure questions about Chinese villages and family histories that immigrants would have trouble answering correctly.

Question 8

Urbanization

Answer 8

the act of urbanizing,or relating to, or designating a city or town.