Vocabulary
The act of leaving your home country permanently.
What is emigrating?
I left my country because my emperor was taxing us to poverty.
What is "to escape oppressive governments"?
Many immigrants ended up in these overcrowded apartments.
What are tenements?
The political leader who used his power to help immigrants, but in a corrupt way.
Who is Boss Tweed?
A type of place that offers help to people who need it; the first of its kind was started in 1889 to address immigrant needs.
What is a settlement house?
The growth of cities.
What is urbanization?
I heard America is so big it takes days to travel across it, and there are animals there no one else has seen!
What is "for adventure"?
Boss Tweed's political organization.
What is a "political machine"?
The woman who saw a need for help for immigrants and opened a place to help them with language, jobs, and culture.
Who is Jane Addams?
This city specialized in the steel industry which drew many new people to work in the industry.
What is Pittsburgh?
Go Steelers! ;)
A neighborhood of people with similar backgrounds, usually poor and rundown.
What is a ghetto?
I can't practice my own religion openly in my country! I might be jailed or killed.
What is "for religious freedom"?
This photographer took pictures of the problems of urban life during the late 1800s.
Who is Jacob Riis?
The male symbolic representation of America, used in ads and political cartoons.
Who is Uncle Sam?
The influence people have on one another.
What is interaction?
A crowded, dirty, usually unsafe apartment building where many immigrants lived in American cities.
We left our country because we could not find jobs.
What is "for new opportunities"?
People were often crowded into these urban neighborhoods with few services from the city.
What are ghettos?
The group of people affected by an immigration moratorium in 1882.
Who were the Chinese?
This woman won a Nobel Peace Prize for her work helping immigrants.
Who is Jane Addams?
The act of treating a group of people differently based on a characteristic they can't change.
What is discrimination?
I can't wait to see a buffalo! I wonder how many miles it is from New York to the land we were promised. Do you think there will be Indians?
What is "for adventure"?
Political leaders used their positions to offer help to immigrants in exchange for political power; doing things you shouldn't with your political power.
What is corruption?
The group of people who were fleeing starvation in their homeland and came to America by the millions.
Who were the Irish?
This figure welcomed most immigrants arriving through New York Harbour in the late 1800s.
What is the Statue of Liberty?