Immigration And Progressive Era 🌺🍍⚡️😢😢🌸🌸⚡️⚡️🔥🔥🥵🥵👑👑🍍🍍⚡️⚡️⚡️🍍🍍✨✨🌺 Flashcards
Old immigrants
Northern and Western Europe
Ireland, great brittian, Germany
1840s-1890s
New immigrants
Southern and Eastern Europe
, Italy, Poland, Hungary
Late 1800s
Four main push factors
- Population growth
- Hunger
- scarcity of arable land
- Religion
Push factor definition
Cause people to leave or want to leave
Angel VS Ellis island
Ellis
-less strict
-New York
-6 sec exam
-2% deported
Angel
-Very strict
-San Francisco
-many were deported
-unsanitary
-barracks
What are pull factors
Factors that cause ppl to come to a place
Four main pull factors
1) free democratic society
2) jobs
3) natural resources
4) the American letters
Info on Chinese immigrants
Rode on a boat to Angel island
They were willing to do stoop labor for less
Experienced terrible racism 
What did the Chinese call California
The golden mountain
When and what was the Chinese Exclusionary act
1882-1892
It excluded Chinese from coming to America except for a couple of them (merchants, teachers, students)
Mexican immigrant info
They traveled by foot or Train to the US
A lot left bc or Mexican revolution
Italian immigrant info 
Rode on a boat to Ellis
Lived in NY a lot of the time in tiny italys
Valued family closeness
Padrones
Ppl to helped the Italians
European Jews
Boat to Ellis island
Valued education a LOT
many came to the US bc of religious Persecution
Nativism
Policy of favoring the interest of natural born Americans
Assimilation
The process by which immigrants acquire the attitude behavior and cultural patterns of society
_____ was a tool assimilation
Education
Settlement houses
Community centers that provided a lot of services to the poor
Tenement
Overcrowded apartments that were dirty and unsanitary
What is progressivism
Wanting change
What were the years of the progressive era
1890-1920
Why was there a demand for progressivism (five things)
Big business
Woman denied rights
Child labor
AA denied rights
Farmer rights 
Who were the mudrakers 
A group of journalist who exposed America’s problems
Who coined the term mudrakers
Theodore Roosevelt
Ida Tarbell
-Exposed standard oil
-role model for women
Upton Sinclair
-Expose the meat packing industry
-Wrote the book “the jungle”
-Because of the jungle the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug act were made
Jacob Riis
-Expose the tenements
-Wrote “how the other half lives”