Immigrants
Vocabulary
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Acts
100
Roughly how many immigrants were there combined?

2 million or 2.56 million

100

This term means to move large groups of people along a road

Mass Transit

100

Most (20 million) of these immigrants moved from where?

Europe

100

Many immigrants had shared these religions

Catholicism and Judaism

100

This act banned immigration to most Chinese people

Chinese Exclusion Act

200

The main reason for immigration from europe

What is religious persecution

200

This term is used to describe the mindset some Americans have towards immigrants

Nativism

200

Most immigrants settle here

Cities

200

Japanese people primarily worked on these plantations

Hawaian plantations

200

This act gave appointments based on exam score

Pendleton Civil Service act

300

The main type of travel used for immigration

What are steam boats

300

This term means growth of cities

Urbanization

300

Incoming Immigrants came from these regions

Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, and Mexico

300

Schools voluntarily chose to teach immigrants what?

English, home skills, etiquette, and history

300

This act creates farmland, draws Mexican farmers

National Reclamation act

400

How many people immigrated during the gold rush

157,000

400

illegal use of political influence for personal gain

Graft

400

These location were checkpoints used to check immigrants

What is Ellis island and Angel island

400

Immigrants move this direction to escape racism

North

400

This act raised tariffs

McKinley Tariff Act

500

Immigrants seeked these kind of jobs

 Unskilled labor (Factories, mills, mines)

500

This term is used to describe the complex culture of america

What is melting pot.

500

Jews flee this place to escape religious persecution by Pogroms.

Russia

500

These types of housing could hold multiple families

Row houses

500

Many of these acts caused more what than what

More harm than good

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