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Immigration
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| immigrant | a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country |
| Urbanization | the growth of cities |
| Assimilation | process of becoming part of the new culture |
| Nativism | A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones |
| push factors | a factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region |
| pull factors | A factor that draws or attracts people to another location |
| Steerage | the part of a ship providing accommodations for passengers with the cheapest tickets. |
| Ellis Island | Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892 |
| greenhorn | a person who is new to or inexperienced |
| settlement houses | community centers that offered services to the poor |
| Salvation Army | a charitable organization created to care for the poor and homeless |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States |