Immigration(Unit 1) Flashcards
Culture is…
All the features of a society’s way of life
Learned and passed down from generation to generation
Culture includes…
All of a society’s shared values, beliefs, institutions, and technology
Culture gives…
Roles to individuals and establishes relationships within groups in a society
Culture traits
Activities and behaviors that people repeatedly practice
Assimilation
One culture group adopts to the attitudes, belief systems, and ways of life of another culture
Innovation
New ideas that are accepted into culture
Diffusion
The spread of an innovation or other culture trait into another culture region which then adopts that element into its own culture
Acculturation
When one culture changes a lot through meeting with another
Reasons people immigrated
Over population Lack of jobs Government tyranny Crop failures Land shortages Rising taxes Famine Persecution
How did they get here
Steamships
2-3 week trip
Birds of passage
Single male workers who came for a shoe time to earn money then return home
Steerage
Large open area beneath ship deck Cheap Limited toilets No privacy Poor foods
Ellis island
Gateway to America
Processed within hours or days
Medical checkups and legal interviews were given
Angel island
San Francisco
Horrible conditions
Processed within weeks or months
Chinese exclusion act
Prohibited immigration of Chinese workers for 10 years
Prevented Chinese from becoming citizens
Asian immigrants
Took jobs from Americans
Segregated in schools
Gentlemen’s agreement
Japan agreed not to allow workers into the US
US agreed to let Japan families imigrate
Mexican immigrants
Farmers needed cheap labor
High wages attracted Mexicans
Segregated, treated as inferior
French Canadian Immigrants
Catholics from Quebec
Settled in NE and Great Lakes area
Took jobs in textile mills &I logging camps
Jobs for immigrants
Mines, Mills and factories
Friends and relatives helped each other
Where did immigrants live
With relatives and friends in communities filled with other immigrants
ghettos
Immigrant ghettos were filled with…
Tenements-low cost small apartments
Poor living conditions
Increase of population led to…
Suburbs-residential communities surrounding the cities
Political machines
Unofficial city organizations that kept a party or group in power
Headed by a leader or boss
Why doesn’t anyone stop political machines
They provided for immigrants
Exchange in favors (political machines)
Politicians offer jobs, contracts to immigrants for their support
They helped the poor when the government wouldn’t
William “Boss” Tweed
Ran Tammany Hall and Democratic Party in NYC
Thomas Nast
Brought down the political machine ran by Boss Tweed
