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Immigration 1800s
Immigration of late 1800s review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Labor | The people or effort that goes into making a good or service. |
| Famine | One of the reasons that new immigrants were coming to American was starvation or lack of food. |
| Revolution | One of the reasons that new immigrants were coming to America was to escape wars within their home countries. |
| Culture | The beliefs, traditions and languages of a country. |
| Gentlemen's Agreement | Informal agreement made with Japan to strictly limit immigration from Japan. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | This act passed by Congress sharply limited Chinese immigration |
| Nativism | The belief that native-born Americans should have more rights than immigrants, led to discrimination against immigrants. |