Immigration/Urbanization

Question 1

Push/Pull Factors

Answer 1

Reasons that people immigrated to one country (pull) or emigrated from their own (push)

Question 2

Ellis Island

Answer 2

An immigration center in New York that immigrants coming to the U.S. were processed at

Question 3

Ghetto

Answer 3

A part of a city in which members of a minority group live

Question 4

Assimilation

Answer 4

When someone in a new, unfamiliar place adapts to it’s peoples customs

Question 5

Nativism/Nativists

Answer 5

The idea of favoring a place’s original people as opposed to new immigrants; nativists believe in nativism

Question 6

Chinese-Exclusion Act

Answer 6

A quota made to limit the amount of Chinese immigrants in America

Question 7

Urbanization

Answer 7

The growth of “urbanizing” areas into more city-like places

Question 8

Old Immigration

Answer 8

Immigrants that came to the U.S. wealthy and skilled

Question 9

New Immigration

Answer 9

Immigrants coming to the U.S. unskilled and poor