19th Century Vocabulary
The belief that America should be protected against immigrants.
What is Nativism?
The general term for reasons that cause people to leave their home country or draw them to a new one.
What are Push and Pull Factors?
Nativists falsely blamed immigrants for economic hardship, claiming they did this to American workers.
What is stealing their jobs?
An 1850s political cartoon criticized German immigrants participating in elections near these locations.
What are Election Polls (or Ballot Boxes)?
To earn 4 points on the rubric, a claim must be strong, relevant, and do this.
What is answer all parts of the essential question?
A severe shortage of food, such as the one in 19th-century Ireland.
What is a Famine?
The primary push factor that drove Irish immigrants to leave their homeland for America.
What was the Potato Famine?
This 19th-century political party distrusted immigrants primarily due to cultural differences.
What was the Know-Nothing Party?
Cartoonist Thomas Nast depicted former immigrants doing this to the ladder after gaining success in America.
What is "Throwing Down the Ladder"?
To receive full credit for evidence on your paragraph, you must provide well-chosen examples and do this.
What is correctly cite your sources?
The process of adopting or adapting to a new culture after moving to a new country.
What is Acculturation?
The main push factor that caused many German immigrants to flee to the United States in the 19th century.
What was political upheaval (or the search for political freedom)?
Passed by Congress in 1882, this law marked the first time the U.S. restricted immigration based on a specific ethnic group.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Representative Horace F. Page argued in 1882 against permitting entry to millions of people he framed as these.
What are "cooly slaves and serfs"?
Full points for reasoning require an insightful explanation written strictly in this format.
What is your own words?
Ignorance or intolerance toward other people's beliefs or cultural backgrounds.
What is Bigotry?
Economic opportunity and the availability of jobs in the U.S. served as an example of this type of factor.
What is a Pull Factor?
Senator John F. Miller argued for exclusion by claiming Chinese laborers provided cheap labor that did this to American workingmen.
What is "starving them out"?
Political cartoons and congressional quotes serve this specific purpose when drafting a history essay paragraph.
What is Evidence (or Examples)?
A reasoning score drops to 2 points if the explanation fails to analyze and simply does this to the claim.
What is restates the claim?
A policy or act that denies someone access or entry to something, such as a country.
What is Exclusion?
Like German and Irish immigrants, this Asian group migrated to America looking for work but faced extreme discrimination and legal bans.
Who were Chinese immigrants?
Pressure from Nativist groups directly forced politicians to pass these, restricting future foreign entry into the U.S.
What are anti-immigration laws (or legislation)?
Senator Miller claimed Chinese immigrants were like "inhabitants of another planet" who were incapable of doing this.
What is assimilating with the American people?
Your paragraph's reasoning must convincingly explain how your evidence connects back to this.
What is the Claim?