ss vocab

Question 1

alien

Answer 1

immigrant living in a country where he/she is not a citizen

Question 2

anti-semitism

Answer 2

hostility toward or discrimination against jews

Question 3

assimilation

Answer 3

absorbing a group into the culture of a larger population

Question 4

chinese exclusion act

Answer 4

blocked chinese from emigrating to the US (started in 1882)

Question 5

ethnic group

Answer 5

minority that speaks a different language or follows different customs than the majority of people in a country

Question 6

exclusion

Answer 6

wanting to totally stop/block immigration

Question 7

gentlemen’s agreement

Answer 7

1907-1908: series of letters exhcanged between Japan and U.S, stopped Japanese from immigrating to the U.S

Question 8

immigrant

Answer 8

people who leave their country to live in another country

Question 9

isolationism

Answer 9

national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs

Question 10

know nothings

Answer 10

political party that was navist and anti-immigration

Question 11

national orgins act

Answer 11

1924: law that reduced the quota on immigrants allowed in from Southern and Eastern Europe excluded Japanese immigrants

Question 12

nativist

Answer 12

belief that those born in a country are superior to other immigrants

Question 13

pull factors (positive)

Answer 13

factors that make people want to come to the U.S

Question 14

push factors (negative)

Answer 14

factors that make people want to leave their home country

Question 15

quota

Answer 15

limit placed on how many immigrants are allowed in the U.S from each country

Question 16

Racism

Answer 16

Prejudice based on race/skin/appearance

Question 17

refugee

Answer 17

people forced to leave their homeland because of war, violence, prosecution, etc

Question 18

restrictions

Answer 18

wanting to increase LIMITS on immigrantiob

Question 19

Tenements

Answer 19

Buildings in which several families rent rooms or apartments often with little sanitation or safety