Push & Pull Factors
Vocabulary
Political Machines
Immigrants
Urban Problems
100

The Irish experienced this when their potato crops died

Famine

100
Confusion and anxiety that newly arrived immigrants often experience.
What is Culture Shock?
100
This group was considered the natural ally of political machines.
Who are immigrants?
100

Reasons why immigrants from Europe had to return home.

What are disease, sickness, criminal, or paperwork not in order?

100
Growth of cities
What is Urbanization?
200

The homestead Act provided this to Immigrants willing to come to the United States.

Free land

200

Trying to be just like the Americans by acting, looking and speaking like them.

What is Assimiation?

200

This group pressured Congress to pass the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Who are the Workingman's Party?

200
Immigrants from South and Eastern Europe who were Catholic and Jewish, spoke many languages, looked different from old immigrants, and arrived in the U.S. after 1890.
Who are NEW immigrants?
200
Solved the problem of unsafe drinking water in cities (Requires 2 responses)
What is chlorination and filtration?
300

Many immigrants came to America so they can worship freely.  

Freedom of Religion

300
Term referring to the ethnic mix of peoples that combine to make one common culture.
What is the Melting Pot?
300

Agreed to desegregate public schools and allow the Japaneses kids to attend with American kids in exchange for unskilled laborers to be kept in Japan.

What is the Gentlemen's agreement?

300
Where new immigrants arriving and were processed on the west coast of the U.S.
What is Angel Island?
300

This helped solve the problem of crime in cities

What is the introduction of a full-time, professional police departments?

400

Many immigrants came to America because they missed them.

Family

400

An two room dwelling where many immigrants were forced to live in the cities. 

What are Tenement apartments

400

The name of the program where Americans wanted the immigrants to be more like them, Americans.

What is the Americanization Movement??

400
Place through which immigrants arriving on the east coast of the U.S. pass before gaining entry to the U.S.
What is Ellis Island?
400
1800's Cable cars, electric streetcars, and electric subways
What is public transportation?
500

Which group of immigrants came to make money and then returned back home?

Italians 

500

Places where the poor immigrants were provided education, food, a place to stay and medical care

What is a Settlement House?

500

Political cartoonist whose cartoons helped immigrants to understand what was going on even though they could not read English.

Who is Thomas Nast?

500
Native-born Americans who reject immigrants and work to restrict immigration.
Who is a Nativist?
500

Where hired to clean up the cities but they did not show up to work

Who are garbage men?

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