Irish Immigration
The country that Irish people are from.
What is Ireland
Many Jewish immigrants moved into this neighborhood on the South end of Manhattan.
What is the Lower East Side?
Something that makes someone want to leave a country.
What is a Push Factor?
The name of the event that killed a lot of crops in Ireland
What is the potato famine?
Jewish immigrants commonly worked in these early clothing factories.
What are sweatshops?
Something that makes someone want to come to a particular country.
What is a Pull Factor
The country that had complete economic control over Ireland during the 1800s.
What is Great Britain/Britain
Many Jewish immigrants came through this port located in New York City.
What is Ellis Island?
Treating someone unfairly based on their race, gender, or religion.
What is discrimination?
The phrase that employers put on signs to signal that they did not want Irish people to work there. Hint: It's also the name of that fire song
What is "No Irish Need Apply"?
Many Jewish people hoped to find this in America
What is jobs/employment/freedom of religion?
When someone forms a negative opinion about a person or group without trying to understand them.
What is prejudice?
The type of organism that killed the potato crops in Ireland.
What is a bacteria?
The organized killing of Jewish people in Russia.
What is a pogrom?
When someone changes part of who they are to become more like the people around them.
What is assimilation?