Causes and Ports
The general term for the bad things that encourage people to leave their home country
What are Push Factors?
This term means related to a city.
This was a common fear among working Americans regarding immigrants.
What is taking jobs away? (Taking lower pay)
An attitude of unfair judgment toward people because of their skin color.
What is racism?
This term describes areas with spread out houses and lots of fields.
What is rural?
Immigrants coming through ports like Ellis Island were checked for this before being allowed entry.
What is disease?
This is the term for a crowded, unsanitary factory where new immigrants often worked.
What is a sweatshop?
Aside from taking jobs away, this was another large fear regarding mass immigration to America.
What is overpopulation?
This 1882 law banned immigration from a specific Asian country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This term describes areas with mostly residential housing, usually located near a city.
What is suburban?
This immigration processing center was located in New York.
What is Ellis Island?
Neighborhoods where immigrants from the same country often lived together.
What is a ghetto?
Prejudice against immigrants and favoring of native-born citizens.
What is nativism?
The general term for putting limits and banning on immigration from certain countries.
What is a quota?
These buildings would be constructed as the population of cities became larger and larger.
What are skyscrapers?
What are Pull Factors?
Overcrowded, poorly-maintained apartment buildings that grew due to rapid growth.
What is a tenement?
This term involves immigrants adopting the language, customs, and social norms of their new country.
This law passed in 1921 was an early attempt to set limits on immigration.
What is the Emergency Quota Act?
"New Immigrants" were usually those coming from these areas of Europe.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
This immigration station on the West Coast was located in California.
What is Angel Island?
A community center created to help immigrants.
What is a Hull House/Settlement House?
These organized groups were against immigration at first because they thought immigrants would work for less money.
What are unions?
This famous author wrote a poem on the Statue of Liberty acting as a welcome to immigrants.
Who is Emma Lazarus?
This part of New York City was designed to help make the city more livable and not as dirty and unhealthy.
What is Central Park?