Immigration Flashcards
What’s a push factor?
Reasons why people leave a place and move to another.
What’s a pull factor?
Reasons why people choose to move to a certain place.
What’s an “old” immigrant?
Refers to individuals immigrating to the United States, mainly from Northern and Western Europe.
What’s a “new” immigrant?
Refers to individuals immigrating to the United States, mainly from Southern and Eastern Europe, and Asia.
What’s the American Dream?
the belief that with hard work, everyone has the opportunity to succeed in America.
What was Ellis Island?
An island in the harbor of New York City.
The chief immigration station of the United States was on Ellis Island from 1892 to 1943, a time when millions of people, especially from Europe, came to the United States
What was Angel Island?
To control and enforce the relatively new immigration laws and deal with the threat of disease from the many new people arriving daily to America.
What does assimilate mean?
To blend or to make more American
What are the tenements?
a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
What is nativism?
Favoring policies geared towards protecting those born in the United States (those “native” to the country).
What does prejudice mean?
A preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
What’s are quotas?
A limit (in this case, limiting the amount of people from certain areas of the world who can immigrate to the United States).
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)?
Passed in 1882
suspended immigration from China to the United States and prevented Chinese who were already in America from going home and reentering the country, effectively stranding thousands of Chinese men and women in the United States..
What is the Statue of Liberty?
A statue in New York Harbor that represents freedom, liberty, and a chance at a new life to many immigrants who have come to the US.
What’s “The New Colossus”?
A poem by Emma Lazarus that is engraved on a tablet within the pedestal on which the Statue of Liberty stands
offers an idealistic vision of America as a welcomer and protector of immigrants.
