Vocab
Vocab 2
Immigration
Moving to Cities
Changes
100
To leave one's homeland to live somewhere else
What is Emigrate?
100
Quarters for low-paying passengers below the deck of a ship
What is Steerage?
100
Over 12 million immigrants were processed here
What is Ellis Island?
100
Many people were stuck in these apartments, often with multiple families
What are tenements?
100
This author wrote in a way that most Americans could relate to.
Who is Mark Twain?
200
Social class occupied by comfortable but not wealthy people
What is Middle Class?
200
Person opposed to immigration; anti-immigrant
What is a Nativist?
200
Many people immigrated to America because of this (3 possible answers)
What is escaping poverty or famine, religious persecution, or better jobs?
200
This was the major effect of dirty cities on people
What is disease?
200
The government gave these schools land to operate.
What is a land-grant college?
300
To become part of a larger culture
What is Assimilate?
300
People who share a common culture or heritage.
What is an Ethnic Group?
300
This prevented Chinese immigrants from entering the US
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
These transported people and cargo across the country
What are railroads?
300
These colleges were created so that African Americans could further their education.
What are HBCUs?
400
Highly populated, poor, run-down Urban area
What is a Slum?
400
Circumstances or situations that cause someone to leave one area and move to another
What are Push and Pull Factors?
400
Most people came over in this:
What is steerage?
400
Most people left their farms and moved to cities for this reason
What are jobs?
400
Learning by doing and critical thinking skills are a part of this philosophy.
What is Progressive Education?
500
Place in large cities where people get assistance with social problems and challenges related to Urban life
What is a Settlement House?
500
A type of residence that is often run-down and crowded
What is a Tenement?
500
Most people who were deported from Ellis Island failed this test or inspection
What is medical inspection?
500
This photographer took photos of slums and tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis?
500
Culture flourished because Americans had more of this.
What is free/leisure time?