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8th Immigration
Immigration
Term | Definition |
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Push Factors | conditions that drive people from their homes |
Pull Factors | conditions that attract immigrants to a new area. |
Ethnic Group | a group of people who share a common culture |
Assimilation | process of becoming part of another culture |
Nativist | person who wanted to limit immigration and preserve the United States for native-born whites. |
Tenement | small apartment in a city slum building |
Settlement House | community center that offers services to the poor. |
Ellis Island | Ships entering New York labor stopped here at this receiving station to be processed to enter America |
Angel Island | on the west coast, immigrants from China and later Japan were processed here and faced even harsher experiences. |
immigrant | person who enters a country in order to settle there. |
steerage | airless rooms below deck |
urbanization | movement of population from farms to cities |