Immagration

Question 1

“Old” Immigrants

Answer 1

Immigrants who arrived in mid-1800s and earlier

Question 2

“New” Immigrants

Answer 2

Immigrants who arrived in the late 1800s and early 1900s

Question 3

Push Factors

Answer 3

Conditions that drive people to leave their homeland and move to a new area.

Question 4

Pull Factors

Answer 4

Conditions that attract immigrants to a new area.

Question 5

Pogroms

Answer 5

Organized, violent attacks on Jewish villages in Europe

Question 6

Steerage

Answer 6

Airless rooms below the deck of a ship, normally reserved for cattle, in which immigrants often travelled.

Question 7

Ellis Island

Answer 7

Receiving station in New York City for immigrants arriving from Europe.

Question 8

Angel Island

Answer 8

Receiving station near San Francisco for immigrants from Asia

Question 9

Assimilation

Answer 9

The process of immigrants blending their culture into a new culture (“melting pot”)

Question 10

Acculturation

Answer 10

The process of immigrants adapting to a new culture but still holding onto their own traditions (“salad bowl”)

Question 11

Nativists

Answer 11

-Americans who sought to limit immigration and preserve the country for white, native-born American citizens.

Question 12

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 12

Law passed in 1882 that prevented Chinese laborers (workers) from entering the U.S.