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SS vocab
ch 20 review sheet
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| push factors | conditions that drives people to leave their homes for a new area. |
| pull factors | conditions that attract people to a new area. |
| pogroms | when the russians massacred lots of jews. |
| welcom symbol | the statue of liberty |
| ellis island | the place where immigrants took tests to get in to america. |
| old immigrants | north and western eurpoe |
| new immigrants | eastern and southern europe,asians |
| ethnic group | group of people who share a common culture. |
| chinese exclusion act | act barring the immigration oh chinese for 10 years. |
| assimilation | process of becoming part of another culture. |
| tenements | apartment in a six or seven story building in a city. |
| yellow journalism | sensational style of reporting used by some newspapers in the late 1800s. |