immigration/urbanization Flashcards
push factor
conditions that drive people from their homes
pull factor
conditions that attracts people to a area
Nativist
people who wanted to limit immigration
Chinese exclusion act
Americans didn’t want Chinese people to take their jobs and money so they didn’t let them work and they had a law about it
urbanization
the movement of a population from farms to the city
skyscrapers
tall buildings with a lot of floors and light weight steel frame construction
Ellis island
New York immigrants where from Europe
Angel island
where having people from asian country’s come immigrate there
settlement house
a house for people that were on the street and they needed a home to live so its like a shelter
building codes
set standards for construction
social gospel
ministers called on their well-to-do members to do their duty as Christmas by helping society’s poor
salvation army
spread Christianity teaches, offered food
compulsory education
laws that made kids go up to school till 6th grade
curriulm
taught English to the immigrants
parochial schools
church sponsored schools