Causes of Immigration
Where did most immigrants come from before 1889?
Northwestern Europe
What are tenements?
Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings occupied by immigrants.
What game was similar to baseball and played by many immigrant children?
Stickball
Someone who moves into another country.
Immigrant
Capable of being spread from one person to another.
Contagious
Why did many immigrants travel in steerage?
Most immigrants did not have much money.
What was a common problem with tenements?
Fire escapes were often blocked or broken.
What was a common fear immigrants had about arriving at Ellis Island?
They were afraid of the screening process.
To move from one place to another?
Migrate
Nagative opinion of a group of people based on race.
Prejudice
What did many immigrants lack that kept them from higher-paying jobs?
Immigrants lacked the skills needed to obtain higher-paying jobs.
Why did many immigrant families live in neighborhoods with people from the same country?
Transitioning into American culture was difficult.
What did the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act prevent immigrants from doing?
Immigrating to the United States
To leave one country to mover permanently into another.
Emigrate
Hot, cramped areas of the ship immigrants traveled in.
Steerage
What was the primary industry associated with "sweatshops"?
Textiles
What is the term for the overcrowded apartment buildings immigrants lived in?
Tenements
How did letters from family influence immigration?
They encouraged others to come to America.
Invented the telepone in 1876.
Alexander Graham Bell
Poor areas of a city where people from similar ethnics lived.
Ghettos
Why did employers prefer immigrant workers?
Immigrant workers would work for lower pay than native-born Americans.
What was the biggest reason people came to America?
Letters from family and friends who had already made it here.
What was a common crime issue in cities due to overcrowding?
Crime increased as a result of overcrowded and unhealthy conditions.
The MAIN reason for the increase of immigration to the US.
Opportunity
Someone left homeless by war or persecution.
Refugee