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US - Chapter 17-1
The "New Immigrants" to America
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does it mean to assimilate? | To become part of the American culture. |
| What does it mean to emigrate? | To leave one's homeland and to go somewhere else to live. |
| What is an Ethnic Group? | Minority groups that spoke different languages and followed different customs from the majority of the people. |
| What is a Nativist? | People who opposed immigration. |
| What is Steerage? | was the cramped and noisy quarters on the lower decks of ships where immigrants who could only afford the cheapest tickets traveled. |
| What is a Sweatshop? | Dark and crowded places where many immigrant women and children worked long hours in repetitious and hazardous conditions for low pay. |
| Which groups of immigrants began arriving in the mid 1880's? | Southern and Eastern Europeans |
| What was going on in many of the countries of the immigrants who came to the United States? | Economic Troubles and Persecution |
| New York City | Where most of the immigrants from Europe landed in the United States. |
| San Francisco | Where most of the immigrants from Asia landed in the United States. |
| What was the name of the immigrant processing center in San Francisco? | Angel Island |
| What was the name of the immigrant processing center in New York City? | Ellis Island |
| What was the greatest challenge for an immigrant after getting into the United States? | finding work |
| What language did many immigrants speak at home? | That native language |
| What language did many immigrants speak at school or work? | English |
| Immigrants preserved their cultural heritage in their... | Ethnic Communities and Institutions |
| What was the first law to limit immigration in the United States? | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| Who wrote a poem welcoming immigrants from Europe to the United States? | Emma Lazarus |
| Japan and the United States reached a ______ that limited immigration to the U.S. and gave fair treatment to people from Japan who lived in the U.S. | Gentleman's Agreement |
| What caused conflict and friction in the families of immigrant women? | women in America had more freedom that women in the old countries |
| Grace Abbott and Julia Lathorp founded what organization? | Immigrant's Protective League |
| What did a Literacy Test require of new immigrants? | That they could read and write English |
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