Terms

Question 1

Push Factors

Answer 1

things that push someone to leave their home country. (E.g. religious persecution, famine, disease).

Question 2

Pull factors

Answer 2

Things that pull people to a country (e.g job opportunities because of rapid industrialization)

Question 3

Nativism

Answer 3

Protect the interest of native born americans though anti-immigrant groups and policies.

Question 4

Assimilation

Answer 4

To force someone to join the customs and culture of another culture.

Question 5

Chinese exclusion act of 1882

Answer 5

Components: Prevented chinese immigration.
Impacted: it was the first act to limit immigration of a certain nationality.

Question 6

Ellis Island

Answer 6

Opened from 1892-1954, roughly 12 million people immigrated through, it was mostly Europeans coming through the New York harbor

Question 7

Angel Island

Answer 7

Opened 1910-1940, mostly Asian and South American immigrants. Around 1 million people, off the coast of California.

Question 8

Old Immigrants (1840s-1880s) were…

Answer 8

from North and West Europe, normally farmers, skilled workers, and protestant

Question 9

New immigrants (1880s-1920s) were…

Answer 9

South and Eastern Europeans, who lived in urban areas, were catholic or Jewish, unskilled and discriminated against

Question 10

Tenements

Answer 10

Small cramped apartments with little sanitation or sewage that new immigrants lived in.