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Immigration
Social Studies-Grade 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Push factors | Things that make someone want to leave their home country |
| Pull factors | Things that draw people into the new country |
| Old immigrants | Immigrants that immigrated before 1880 |
| New immigrants | Immigrants that immigrated between the years 1880 and 1920 |
| Assimilate | To understand the American culture and take it in |
| Melting pot theory | When immigrants come their cultures blend together and they take on American culture |
| Salad bowl theory | When all the immigrants keep their cultures blend together and share it with others |
| Steerage | The lower class in the boat that is usually meant for cargo but was used to transport poor immigrants |
| Ellis island | Ellis Island was the processing center for all of the European immigrants |
| Angel island | Angel Island was the processing center for all of the Chinese and Japanese immigrants |
| Chinese exclusion act | The Chinese exclusion act was when no more Chinese immigrants were able to come to the United States |
| Gentlemen’s agreement | When Japan and America both agreed to not let any more Japanese immigrants in |
| Urbanization | The growth of cities |
| Industrialization | The growth of factories |
| City problems | Many city problems were unsanitary, crowded, dangerous, etc. |
| Tenements | Tenements were apartment buildings for immigrants that just got here and didn’t have a lot of money. They were affordable, but very cramped and unsanitary. |
| Child labor | Child labor happened when factories would employ children for less pay |
| Emma Lazarus | Emma Lazarus wrote the poem at the bottom of the Statue of Liberty. The poem was called the new colossus. |
| The no nothing party, and the ku klux klan | Both of these were groups of people that hated immigrants and people that weren’t a specific type of American |
| Nativism | Native ism is the belief that America is only for Americans |
| Sweat shops | Sweatshirts were small factories that were very dangerous and crowded |
| How the other half lives | How the other half lives was a book written by Jacob Rii’s. He used his camera to capture the inside of the tenements and show the rest of the world how bad immigrants had to live in the tenements |
| Which places were old immigrants coming from? | Ireland and Germany |
| Which places were new immigrants coming from? | Italy, Poland, and Russia |
| Why did people immigrate from Ireland? | The potato famine. People in Irish lived off of potatoes, but then there was a mutation in a potato that spread to all the other potatoes and made them lose their crop. |
| When did Ellis Island open? | 1892 |
| Immigration act of 1917 | Required immigrants to take a literacy test |
| Immigration act of 1924 (John Reed act) | Reduced the amount of immigrants led into the country to 2% |
| Where was Angel Island? | San Francisco, California |
| What was the nickname for Angel Island? | Ellis Island of the West |
| Emergency quota act | Limits the immigration entry rates to 3% |
| What were quotas? | Quotas were four acts of Congress from 1917 to 1929 that restrict the number of immigrants allowed into the country |
| By 1929 how many immigrants were allowed into the US per year? | 150,000 immigrants |
| Exclusion | Pushing people out |
| Inclusion | Letting people in |
| Emma Lazarus | She wrote the poem “the new colossus” on the Statue of Liberty |
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