Religion
Attacking someone based on their religion.
religious persecution
Belief that white people from many nations could blend together to make one society.
melting pot
assimilation
Term for people who believed that people born in America were superior to new comers?
nativists
What religion was the majority of immigrants arriving before that late 1800s
Protestant
Two areas that most of the immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s arriving in American came from.
Southern and Eastern Europe
Where did most of the new immigrants settle?
cities/close to factories/northeast
physical characteristics
Unlike the majority of earlier protestant immigrants, many of the "New Immigrants" were either....
Catholic or Jewish
Due to lack of many, where where many of the New Immigrants force to travel on the ships
steerage
What were ghettos?
poor ethnic neighborhoods
Chinese Exclusion Act
Americans distrusted members of this religion because they felt members would be more loyal to its religious leader than the nation.
Catholicism
Name one of the economic differences of the new immigrants
poor/unskilled/came for factory work
How did ghettos negatively impact immigrants?
slowed assimilation
What religious group made up the majority of those fleeing Eastern Europe due to religious persecution?
Jewish
Name one of the push factors for immigration in the late 1800s and early 1900s
famine/wars/revolutions/depressions/religious persecution
What was a positive impact of ghettos?
provided familiarity