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U.S History Unit 2

Industry/Immigration

TermDefinition
Immigration Travel Most immigrants traveled by steamboat from europe
Steerage lowest class that one can travel in a ship.
Push events in home countries that caused families to want to leave (example: war, poverty, & no jobs)
Pull US had things that these people wanted (example: jobs!)
Old Immigrants immigrants who had come to the US before the 1880s from Ireland, Germany, UK
New Immigrants Immigrants who had come to the US after the 1880s from Italy, Russia, Germany
Nativism favoring the interests of native-born people over immigrants
Chinese exclusion act 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers
Melting Pot the mixing of cultures, ideas, and peoples that has changed the American nation. The United States, with its history of immigration.
Salad Bowl A new term to describe, and celebrate the diversity of the United States without the controversial notion of assimilation found in the term melting pot.
Factors of industrialization -Natural Resources: (oil, steel, lumber, coal) -Rail Roads -Population Increase (Laborers)
Social Darwinism The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.
Labor unions An organization formed by workers to strive for better wages and working conditions
Ellis Island Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892
Angel Island The immigration station in San Francisco where Asian immigrants, mostly Chinese gained admission to the U.S.
The new colossus Poem that includes the concept that the United States was for any immigrant who wanted a better life for themselves.
Americanization Belief that taking in immigrants cultures and beliefs into American society would make them more loyal citizens
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