Immigration in the U.S.

Question 1

Life of a Polish Immigrant

Answer 1

Agrarian lifestyles. wanted to find spots to farm

Question 2

Chain Migration

Answer 2

an immigration pattern that refers to an immigrants destination, such as “Little Italy”, “China Town”, etc.

Question 3

Birds of Passage

Answer 3

Europeans came to the U.S. due losing land, worked to get money so they can buy land back in Europe

Question 4

Life of a Jewish Immigrant

Answer 4

took advantage of their commercial background; mainly became peddlers in cities and market towns

Question 5

Life of an Italian Immigrant

Answer 5

mainly southern Italians; demanded for labor and not farming, they lived very inexpensively

Question 6

Ellis Island

Answer 6

1892-1924, the largest & most active immigration station in America

Question 7

Lewis Hine

Answer 7

NYC geography teacher, made a project of photographing immigrants on Ellis Island; later would capture the harsh life of child labor

Question 8

Jacob Riis

Answer 8

NYC photographer who captured the poverty & issues of immigrants, later published the book “How The Other Half Lives”

Question 9

Five Points

Answer 9

a 19th century dangerous immigrant neighborhood

Question 10

Tenements

Answer 10

apartment buildings later divided into multiple living spaces, often cramped for immigrants

Question 11

Hull House

Answer 11

nation’s most influential settlement house for immigrants, converted by Jane Adams

Question 12

Hull House

Answer 12

nation’s most influential settlement house for immigrants, converted by Jane Adams

Question 13

Life of a Japanese Immigrant

Answer 13

mainly settled on the Pacific Coast such as San Francisco, mainly worked in farms

Question 14

Life of a Chinese Immigrant

Answer 14

attracted by the Gold Rush, worked as agricultural workers & industrial jobs after it

Question 15

Angel Island

Answer 15

1885-1940, immigration station island by San Francisco

Question 16

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 16

passed by Congress due to racism; suspended Chinese immigration for 10 years

Question 17

Albert Genthe

Answer 17

a german immigrant who learned photography and became popular for his “Chinatown” pictures

Question 18

Nativism

Answer 18

promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants

Question 19

Americanization

Answer 19

programs sought to integrate immigrants by teaching them English and American Democracy

Question 20

Eugenics Movement

Answer 20

1900s movement to improve American population by restricting who could have kids and who couldn’t

Question 21

Margaret Sanger

Answer 21

opened the first birth control clinic in 1916

Question 22

Immigration Act of 1924

Answer 22

legislation that limited the number of immigrants allowed in the U.S.