Vocabulary/concepts #1
Fear of foreigners is called _____
Xenophobia
Relating to farmland, open space, or agricultural setting.
Rural
A ____ is a small crowded apartment in a city.
Tenement
This person wants limits on immigrants and believes that they are better than them.
Nativist
________ is the movement of population from the farms to the cities.
Urbanization
A ____ is a person who flees their homeland to seek safety in another place.
Refugee
What word means to be economically successful?
Prosperity
What city did most of the Irish settle during this time period?
New York City.
Relating to outside the city; agriculture
Rural
A person who enters a country in order to settle.
Immigrant
A practice or habit shared by a group of people.
Custom
The _____ immigrants came from Southern/Eastern Europe in the late 1800s.
New
(Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia)
An organized attack on a Jewish community in Russia.
Pogram
Entire way of life developed by a group of people.
Culture
Bottom part of the ship where immigrants stayed on their trip to America
Steerage
Harassing, threatening, or harming people who differ in culture.
Persecution
Referring to the origin, classification, or characteristics of a group of people.
Ethnic
A place where a variety of races, cultures, and individuals live together.
Melting Pt
List two inventions that improved transportation.
Large bridges
Streetcars
Trolleys
What was created in the cities to provide opportunities to enjoy nature?
Parks
EX. Central Park
Why were the old immigrants accepted by Americans?
Spoke English.
Culture not very different.
Easier time assimilating into American society.
List 3 push actors
Civil War
Religious/ Political persecution
Lack of food/shelter
Unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes regarding a certain group of people.
Prejudice
Law that stopped Chinese laborers from entering the US for ten years
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
What problems were created by the increase of immigrant population in the cities
Crime
Disease
Fires
Pollution