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Topic 11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| assimilation | the process of becoming part of another culture:;immigrant children often found it easier to adapt to a new culture and customs than did adults immigrants |
| chinese exclusion act | prohibited the immigrants of chinese workers from 1882-1902 |
| ethnic group | a group of people who share a common culture; often associated with groups of immigrants living together in the same sections of a city called an ethnic neighborhood |
| suffragist | a person who campaigned for women's rights to vote such as: susan B. anthony, elizabeth cady stanton, carrie chapman catt, and alice paul |
| naivism | the belief that immigrants are the cause of problems in society |
| pull factors | the conditions that attract people to leave their homelands to settle in a new country, for example for freedom of speech or better jobs |
| push factors | the condition that push people to leave their homelands to permanently settle in a new country: for example, famine or religious persecution |
| ellis lsland | the east immigrant entrance after 1892; used mostly by immigrant from europe |
| gentlemen's agreement | 1907; the u.s and japan agree to limit the number of japanese immigrants coming into the U.S |
| settlement house | provided community services such as medical care, childcare, libraries, and classes in english |
| 19th amendment | august 1920; the amendment to the constitution that gave women the right to vote |
| civil service | |
| the gilded age |
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