Push and Pull Factors
This is something that causes a person to leave their home.
What is a push factor?
This was the name for people who believed that being born in the US made you superior to immigrants coming into the country.
What is Nativist.
This was the immigration processing center in New York.
What is Ellis Island?
This was the name for the unsafe, overcrowded buildings that many immigrants lived in.
What are tenements?
This country gave the Statue of Liberty to the US as a gift.
What is France?
Give an example of a pull factor that would bring someone to America.
What is political freedom, religious freedom, economic opportunity/jobs.
This was the name of a nativist political party that started as a secret society.
What are the "Know Nothings"?
This is the word for what would happen at Ellis Island to immigrants who were sick and had to be isolated for a time.
What is quarantine?
Name one well known ethnic neighborhood.
What is Chinatown, Little Italy, Astoria(Greek), Brighton Beach(Russian)?
Name a country that "New Immigrants" came to America from.
What is Russia, Poland, Romania, Italy, Greece?
This push factor caused many Jewish people to come to the US from Eastern Europe and the Russian Empire.
What is religious persecution/pogroms?
This is a system that only allowed a certain number of people from each country to come to the US per year.
What is a quota?
This was the cheapest, worst level of accommodations on the ships coming to America.
What is steerage?
Many immigrants tried to do this, blending into the "melting pot" of American Society.
What is "assimilate"?
This type of last name comes from who a person's father is.
What is patronymic?
This caused many Irish people to come to the US. Push or pull?
The Irish Potato Famine/The Great Hunger
Push Factor
This was not an official law, but it put strict limits on immigration from Japan.
What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
Most immigrants from Asia came to this center in San Francisco Bay.
What is Angel Island?
Name three issues with tenement living conditions.
What are:
Crowded, Unsafe, No Running Water, Diseases Spread, Fire Risk, etc.
This woman started Hull House in Chicago to help immigrants and the poor and to fight for systemic change.
Who is Jane Addams?
Many old immigrants settled in the Midwest US and started farms. This was the US law that served as a pull factor to lead them to settle there.
What is the Homestead Act?
This law was passed in 1882 and is considered the first immigration law passed against a specific country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This is a major difference between how the two major processing centers treated immigrants.
Ellis Island was more accepting and Angel Island was more likely to turn people away.
We learned about a man who took pictures of poor living conditions to raise awareness and bring positive change. What was his name and what was the name of his book?
Jacob Riis
How the Other Half Lives
Name one teacher in the school with an Occupational surname.
Who is:
Ms. Cooper
Mr. or Mrs. Kramer
Ms. Smith