Becoming American
The process of immigrants adopting the customs and culture of their new country
What is assimilation?
Neighborhoods like "Little Italy" or "Chinatown" that were formed by immigrants of similar backgrounds
What are ethnic conclaves?
Term refering to reasons people leave their home country
What are push factors?
A policy that favored native-born inhabitants over immigrants
What is nativism?
Benefits that ethnic enclaves provided to newly arrived immigrants
What are community support, familiar language, and cultural preservation?
Term refering to why people move to a new country
What are pull factors?
A famous immigration station on the East Coast that processed millions of immigrants, testing their health and paperwork
What is Ellis Island?
What are settlement houses?
Push factors that caused many Europeans to immigrate to the US after 1870
What are poverty, famine, religious persecution, or political unrest?
This 1882 law targeted and restricted immigration from a particular Asian country
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Ways that ethnic enclaves helped immigrants maintain cultural traditions while adapting to American society
Pull factors that attracted many immigrants to the US after 1870
What are economic opportunities, freedom, or avaiable land?
Schools that attempted to assimilate immigrant children by teaching English, American customs, and traditions
What is segregation or limited economic opportunities?
Ways advancements in transportation technology, such as steamships, influenced both push and pull factors in immigration
What is by making travel faster and cheaper?