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Immigration quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Push Factors | conditions that drove people from their homelands |
| Examples of Push factors | escape from oppressive governments, hope for better economic opportunities...JOBS, religious persecution; Russian pogroms (village raids), lack of food and/or land, |
| Pull factors | conditions that attract immigrants to a country (US) |
| Examples of pull factors | economic opportunity - American factory jobs, Religious Freedom (Bill of Rights), cheap land, |
| City Problems | poverty, crime, overcrowding and violence |
| Who were blamed for the city problems? | immigrants were often blamed for these problems |
| Steerage | Airless rooms below deck on a ship |
| Old Immigrants | England, Ireland, Germany |
| New Immigrants | Eastern Europe and Asia |
| Acculturation | the process of holding on to traditions while adapting to a new culture |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | first law to prevent a specific group from entering the U.S. |
| Ellis Island | main processing station on East Coast (NY) where many immigrants gained entry to U.S. |
| Angel Island | main processing station on West Coast (CA) where many Asian immigrants gained entry to U.S |
| Poem by Emma Lazarus w/in Base of Statue of Liberty | “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,...” |
| Urbanization | industrialization led to massive growth of cities in late 1800’s due to people moving from farms to cities for factory jobs; the flood of immigrants leads to rapid growth of cities; cities became overcrowded; crime, filth and disease became a problem |
| Tenements | small apartments, often w/ no windows, heat or plumbing where much of city’s poor lived |
| Building Codes | regulations for basic construction and building safety |
| Settlement Houses | community centers that focused on helping poor immigrants get settled; taught English, job skills and place to socialize |
| Hull House | famous settlement house in Chicago run by progressive leader, Jane Addams |
| Political Machine | often a corrupt political organization that provided the poor and new immigrants of America’s cities with aid and jobs in exchange for votes to increase their political power and influence |
| Political Boss | individual who ran these “machines;” Boss Tweed of NYC the most famous; they made themselves very rich through bribery and stealing the city’s tax money |
| Tammany Hall | Name of famous political machine in NYC run by powerful political boss, Boss Tweed |
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