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Immigration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a person who lives in a country other than their birth country | Immigrant |
| New York harbor immigration station for European immigrants. | Ellis |
| San Francisco Bay immigration station for Asian immigrants. | Angel |
| Assumes that various immigrant groups will tend to “melt together,” abandoning their individual cultures(2words) | MeltingPot |
| Process of blending into society by adopting the dominant culture. | Assimilation |
| 1882 law which banned Chinese immigrants into the United States for ten years. Also made Chinese immigrants ineligible for naturalization. | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| Urban reformer, activist, social worker, and co winner of the Nobel peace prize in 1931. Founded the Chicago Hull House | Addams |
| Settlement house co founded by Jane Addams in Chicago. | Hull House |
| Growth of cities resulting from industrialization | Urbanization |
| Run-down and overcrowded apartment | Tenements |
| Neighborhood with overcrowded and dangerous housing. | Slum |
| Place where the workers labor long hours water poor conditions and low wages. | Sweatshop |
| The process of becoming a United States citizen, if an individual was not born in the United States | Naturalization |
| The first subway system created in 1897 in this city. | Boston |
| This city had the first paid fire department. | Cincinnati |
| Social reformer, "muck-raking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. Published "How the Other Side Lives" | Riis |
| These were created to provide assistance to immigrants. | Settlement Houses |
| These people opposed immigration and preferred native-born citizens. | Nativists |
| Immigrants that came from Northern and Western Europe. | Old |
| Immigrants that came from Southern and Eastern Europe. | New |
| Factors that forced people to leave their countries such as Scarce Land, Lost of Farm Jobs, and Political Persecution. | Push |
| Factors that bring people into the country such as Promise of Freedom and Family and Friends | Pull |