Immigration

Question 1

Immigrate

Answer 1

to come into a country of which one is not a native for permanent residence

Question 2

urbanization

Answer 2

the process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities

Question 3

push factor

Answer 3

reasons why people left their old country for a new country

Question 4

pull factor

Answer 4

reasons why people immigrated to a new country

Question 5

ethnic group

Answer 5

group of people who share a common culture

Question 6

old immigrants

Answer 6

millions of immigrants from britain, germany, ireland, scandinavia, in the mid-1800s

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new immigrants

Answer 7

1880s, five million immigrants from other parts of Europe and Asia, brought different religions over

Question 8

Steerage

Answer 8

the part of a ship providing rooms for the passengers with the cheapest tickets

Question 9

Ellis Island

Answer 9

the port of entry for immigrants coming from Europe

Question 10

III. Arrival in America

Answer 10

east and west coast were the two main points of entry, diseases spread quickly on the ship

Question 11

IV. Arrival at Ellis Island

Answer 11

must pass examination test and those who were sick were quarantined or sent back, most didn’t know customs or language

Question 12

The Great Hall

Answer 12

immigrants were processed here

Question 13

Ghetto

Answer 13

an affordable area that was settled by recently arrived immigrants

Question 14

benevolent societies

Answer 14

an immigrant aid organization

Question 15

V. Adjusting to a New Land

Answer 15

most newcomers resided in the slums of manhattan and stayed within their own cultural group, their children learned the American culture easily

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VI. Realities of Life in U.S.

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many immigrants worked very hard for success at low-paying, unskilled jobs

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tenement

Answer 17

any multi-occupancy apartment, most often crowded, run-down buildings

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settlement house

Answer 18

community center offering help to the poor

Question 19

Opposition to immigration

Answer 19

nativists opposed immigration because they feared they would lose their jobs, they wouldn’t learn the customs

Question 20

VII. Immigrant life in cities

Answer 20

tenements were crowded and unsanitary, reformers demanded and got building codes, garbage collectors, and companies staying out of residential areas to reduce pollution, mass culture was brought in, public transportation increased

Question 21

Jacob Riis

Answer 21

journalist and photographer who exposed the horrible conditions in tenements

Question 22

Jane Addams

Answer 22

an activist who created the Hull House

Question 23

VIII. Jacob Riis

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Danish, came over in 1870, worked as a police reporter and photographer, published “How the Other Half Lives”

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IX. Response to the Problem

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Salvation Army offered food and shelter to the poor, YMCA/YWCA offered young people a brief escape from slum life, Hull House was created

Question 25

Yellow Peril

Answer 25

the belief that people of East Asia posed a threat

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Xenophobia

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fear of foreigners

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X. Chinese Immigration

Answer 27

• were brought over for the gold rush in 1848
• helped build transcontinental railroad
  -clustered in chinatowns
  discrimination of asians grew in the West, race riots broke out, protests grew to end discrimination against chinese citizens

Question 28

XI. Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 28

only law to target a specific race; banned immigration of Chinese laborers; repealed in 1943

Question 29

paper children

Answer 29

someone from China who used fake documents to illegally immigrate by using the name of a legal resident

Question 30

quota

Answer 30

limit on something

Question 31

XII. Angel Island

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other loopholes were used to immigrate, there was a possibility of being detained at angel island forever, had to have papers to prove relations to citizens in the U.S.

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Birthright citizenship (14th amendment)

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right of anyone born in a country to have automatic citizenship

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XIII. U.S. vs Wong Kim Ark

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arrived before the exclusion act, went to visit his parents in China, was denied reentry, won the supreme court case abt the 14th amendment

Question 34

Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907

Answer 34

Japanese discrimination continued despite the U.S. repealing school segregation laws on Japanese citizens in San Fran, literacy tests were given to immigrants before entry

Question 35

Emergency Quota Act of 1921

Answer 35

allowed a certain number of people from a country to immigrate to the U.S.