Immigrants Flashcards
Southern and Eastern Europe
Eastern Orthodox
Northern and Western Europe
Catholics
Hungary and Yugoslavia
Jewish
Helped build transcontinental railroad
Chinese and Irish
Worked in textile and steel mills in the northeast and the clothing industry in New York
Irish, Germans, poles
Labored in coal mines in the east
Slavs, Italians
Why did immigrants come to America? How were the work conditions?
Freedom, chance of a better life
Low pay, dangerous
How did most of the immigrants from Europe enter America?
What did they see first?
Ellis island
Statue of Liberty
Melting pot
Assimilation of many nationalities into Americans
What were essential into assimilating immigrants into American society?
Public schools
What were conflicts and hostilities with the immigrants?
Work for low pay
Prejudice based on religious and cultural differences
Resentment led congress to limit immigration through what two acts?
Chinese exclusion act of 1882
Immigration restriction act of 1921
_____ and ____ centers grew rapidly in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and New York
Manufacturing
Transportation
Families lived in harsh conditions crowded into ____
Tenements
Rapid growth caused the need for _____ & _______
Sewage and water systems
Public transportation
