Immigration Terms

Question 1

Pull Factor

Answer 1

Conditions that attract people to a new country

Question 2

Push Factor

Answer 2

Conditions that force people to leave their homeland

Question 3

Prejudice

Answer 3

an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought or reason.

Question 4

Discrimination

Answer 4

acts or attitudes based on prejudice, unfairness toward a particular group. To deny someone something based on prejudice

Question 5

Angel Island

Answer 5

West Coast immigration station. Most came from Asia

Question 6

Ellis Island

Answer 6

East Coast immigration station. Most immigrants came from Europe

Question 7

Xenophobia

Answer 7

Fear of foreigners

Question 8

Nativist

Answer 8

Someone who believes that the US should be preserved for native born Americans

Question 9

assimilation

Answer 9

The process of becoming a part of another culture

Question 10

Ethnic neighborhood

Answer 10

A place where people of a similar culture settle because they shar a similar culture

Question 11

Immigrant

Answer 11

Someone who leaves his or her homeland to settle on another country

Question 12

Ethnic group

Answer 12

People who share a similar culture: Food, Language, Music, Literature

Question 13

Stereotype

Answer 13

An oversimplified idea of a specific type of person