U3L1 A New Wave of Immigration

Question 1

What are push factors? What are pull factors?

Answer 1

Push factors are conditions that drive people from their homes. Pull factors are conditions that attract immigrants to a new area.

Question 2

What is an example of a push factor?

Answer 2

An industrial boom in the United States had created a huge need for workers that drew many immigrants.

There are more examples to show a push factor, just make sure you know what it is :D

Question 3

What was the main push factor in Europe?

Answer 3

Agricultural problems
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European immigrants were often small farmers or landless farmworkers. As European populations grew, land became scarce. Small farms could barely support the families that worked them. In some areas, new farm machines replaced farmworkers.

Question 4

What was the main push factor in Russia?

Answer 4

Political and religious persecution
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In Russia, the government supported pogroms (POH grahmz), or organized attacks on Jewish villages. Persecution and violence also pushed Armenian Christians out of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey).

Question 5

What is the main push factor in Mexico?

Answer 5

Political unrest
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After 1910, a revolution erupted in Mexico. Thousands of Mexicans crossed the border into the southwestern United States.

Question 6

What was the chief push factor for immigrants?

Answer 6

Industrial jobs

Question 7

How did Americans get laborers for factories?

Answer 7

Factory owners sent agents to Europe and Asia to hire workers at low wages. Steamship companies offered low fares for the ocean crossing. Railroads posted notices in Europe advertising cheap land in the American West.

Question 8

How is the promise of freedom a push factor?

Answer 8

Many immigrants were eager to live in a land where police could not arrest or imprison them without a reason and where freedom of religion was guaranteed to all by the Bill of Rights.

Question 9

Why was leaving home to go to American often a hard journey?

Answer 9

Disease.
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Most immigrants could afford only the cheapest berths. Shipowners jammed up to 2,000 people in steerage, the airless rooms below deck. In such close quarters, disease spread rapidly..

Question 10

Example of disease spreading in a voyage from Germany to the U.S.

Answer 10

An outbreak of measles infected every child on one German immigrant ship. The dead were thrown into the water “like cattle,” reported a horrified passenger.

Question 11

What is the statute of liberty a symbol of?

Answer 11

Hope and freedom

Question 12

Where did most European voyages end in?

Answer 12

New York City

Question 13

What happened at the receiving station at Ellis Island?

Answer 13

Here, immigrants had to face a dreaded medical inspection. Doctors watched newcomers climb a long flight of stairs. Anyone who limped or appeared out of breath might be stopped. Doctors also examined eyes, ears, and throats. The sick had to stay on Ellis Island until they got well. A small percentage who failed to regain full health were sent home.

Question 14

Why did the officials change the names of some immigrants?

Answer 14

With hundreds of immigrants to process each day, officials had only minutes to check each new arrival. To save time, they often changed names that they found hard to spell. Krzeznewski became Kramer. Smargiaso ended up as Smarga. Even the first name of one Italian immigrant was changed, from Bartolomeo to Bill.

Question 15

How were Asians treated when they were processed?

Answer 15

After 1910, many Asian immigrants were processed on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. Because Americans wanted to discourage Asian immigration, new arrivals often faced long delays. Many Asian immigrants scratched their feelings in poetry on the wall.

Question 16

What are push factors of immigration?

/not asking for examples

Answer 16

conditions that drive people away from their homes

Question 17

What was the voyage to the United States like for most immigrants?

Answer 17

The voyage was long and difficult for most immigrants, who crossed the ocean in the cramped and often disease-infested steerage quarters.

Question 18

Explain why the Statue of Liberty became a symbol of hope and freedom for immigrants arriving in the United States.

Answer 18

The Statue of Liberty became a symbol of hope and freedom because it indicated that the long journey across the ocean was over and instilled a sense of the possibility that better opportunities awaited the immigrants.

Question 19

What was one of the first things immigrants did?

Answer 19

Get jobs

One human said this:
“First,” reported one immigrant, “the streets were not paved with gold. Second, they were not paved at all. Third, they expected me to pave them.”

Question 20

Where did immigrants usually reside? Where did immigrants usually work?

Answer 20

Immigrants often stayed in the cities where they landed. Cities were the seat of industrial work.

Question 21

Where did poor immigrants usually end up?

Answer 21

City slums soon became packed with poor immigrants.

Question 22

Who were the immigrants called “old immigrants”?

Answer 22

The early wave of English, Irish, Germans, and Scandinavians became known as “old immigrants.”

Question 23

Who were the immigrants known as “new immigrants”?

Answer 23

After 1885, millions of “new immigrants” arrived from Southern and Eastern Europe. They included Italians, Poles, Greeks, Russians, and Hungarians. On the West Coast, a smaller but growing number of Asian immigrants arrived, mostly from China and, later, from Japan. There were also a few immigrants from Korea, India, and the Philippines.

Question 24

What was one differences between old immigrants and new immigrants?
(Language wise)

Answer 24

With the old immigrants, most already knew how to speak English. On the other other, most of the new immigrants knew little to no English.

Question 25

Why did Asians have a harder time with religion than the Europeans did?

Answer 25

Many of the Europeans were Catholic, Jewish, or Eastern Orthodox. Immigrants from Asia might be Buddhist or Daoist. Set apart by language and religion, they found it harder to adapt to a new life.

Question 26

What does acculturation mean?

Answer 26

Acculturation is the process of holding on to older traditions while adapting to a new culture.

Question 27

How did the first generation do the acculturation?

I didn’t know how to write the question with correct grammar, but it gets the point across… I hope-

Answer 27

Immigrants learned how to use American institutions such as schools, factories, and the political system. At the same time, they tried to keep their traditional religions, family structures, and community life.

Question 28

How were neighborhoods like for immigrants?

Answer 28

Immigrants eased into their new lives by settling in their own neighborhoods. Large American cities became patchworks of Italian, Irish, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, German, Jewish, and Chinese neighborhoods. Within these neighborhoods, newcomers spoke their own language, celebrated special holidays, and prepared foods as in the old country. Italians joined clubs such as the Sons of Italy. Hungarians bought and read Hungarian newspapers. Religion stood at the center of immigrant family life. Houses of worship both united and separated ethnic groups. Catholics from Italy worshipped in Italian neighborhood parishes. Those from Poland worshipped in Polish parishes. Jewish communities divided into Orthodox, Reform, and Conservative branches.

Question 29

Who adapted to new culture best?

Answer 29

Children

Question 30

Why do children adapt to culture different?

Answer 30

They learned English in school and then helped their families to speak it. Because children wanted to be seen as Americans, they often gave up customs that their parents honored. They played American games and dressed in American-style clothes.

Question 31

What are nativist?

Answer 31

People who sought to limit immigration and preserve the country for native-born, white Protestants.

Question 32

Why did people dislike immigrants?

Hint: all the answers are invalid reasons

Answer 32

Nativists argued that immigrants would not fit into American culture because their languages, religions, and customs were too different. Many workers resented the new immigrants because they took jobs for low pay. Others feared them because they were different.

Question 33

Nativists attacked who in the northeast?

Answer 33

Jews and Italians

Question 34

Nativists attacked who in the Southwest?

Answer 34

Mexicans

Question 35

Nativists attacked who in the West Coast?

Answer 35

Chinese

Question 36

What did most Americans think of Chinese customs and visa versa?

Answer 36

Most Americans did not understand Chinese customs. Also, some Chinese did not try to learn American ways.

Question 37

What prejudice did the Chinese face?

Answer 37

Gangs attacked and sometimes killed Chinese people, especially during hard times.

Question 38

What did the government do against the prejudice against the Chinese?

Answer 38

They made the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Question 39

What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?

Answer 39

It barred Chinese laborers from entering the country. In addition, no Chinese person who left the United States could return.

FLIPPING RACIST BITCHES

Question 40

How long was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Answer 40

Congress renewed the original 10-year ban several times.

Question 41

Why did immigrant children give up their parents’ customs?

Answer 41

They wanted to be seen as Americans.

Question 42

What was the main agenda of the nativists?

Answer 42

They wanted to restrict immigration in order to preserve America for white, native-born Protestants.

Question 43

Describe the process of acculturation, and explain how immigrants adapted their own traditions to American culture.

Answer 43

Acculturation is the process of adapting to a new culture while still maintaining one’s own traditions. Many immigrants had strong family lives that centered around their traditional religions, languages, and customs, yet they also learned to use American institutions and to speak English. Many immigrants also blended their traditional tongues with English.