Terms
Push Factors
Immigrants mainly came from these areas in the late 1800s/early 1900s
Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe
Name on thing the new immigrants were kept from getting when they arrived in America
Well paying jobs and nice housing
Become an economic world power/build up cities
Term for why people were attracted to America
Pull Factors
People arriving mainly from Europe arrived through this immigration station
Ellis Island
Name one thing settlement houses helped new immigrants do in order to assimilate.
Learn English, adopt American clothing and diet
Which group of people introduced bagels into American culture?
European Jews
Assimilating immigrants into society
Americanization
People arriving from Asia mainly arrived through this immigration station
Many immigrants lived in these buildings after arriving in America
Tenements
Which group of people introduced a vast knowledge of plants for medicinal purposes to the United States?
The Chinese
This is when people who were born in America for favored over immigrants
Nativism
The percentage of people detained at Angel Island
60%
This act kept Chinese immigrants from arriving in America
Which group helped develop effective ranching techniques in the Southwest?
Mexican Americans
Society in which people from many nationalities assimilate to make one culture
Melting Pot
The percentage of people not allowed through Ellis Island and sent back to their home countries
2%
Name one of the two religions the majority of the new immigrants were that made people suspicious of them.
Catholic or Jewish
Name one way immigrants fought to improve society.
They became active in labor unions, politics, fought for policies to protect the poor and powerless, developed new technologies