Immigration 1
This is referred to the permanent movement of people from one country to another.
What is immigration?
What was the arrival point (name of island) for European immigrants?
What is Ellis Island?
Refers to a period when many individuals and families relocated from rural areas of the country to cities.
What is urbanization?
Poorly built, dark, crowded multi-family apartments.
What is are tenements?
What did citizens have to pass to prove a 5th grade education?
Literacy Test
What was the arrival points (name of island) for Asian immigrants?
What is Angel Island?
Processing was much harsher at this Island as immigrants withstood tough questioning and long detentions in filthy conditions.
What is Angel Island?
Name two problems in American cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is housing, sanitation, transportation, water, crime, and fire?
Movement where individuals lived in neighborhoods that they were trying to help people in need.
Citizens had to pay this in order to vote?
Poll Tax
Name one characteristic of old immigrants.
What is religion (Protestant), Northern or Western Europe, English or other Germanic languages, Fair skinned, well-educated, financially stable?
Name one characteristic of new immigrants.
What is Religion (Roman Catholic, Jewish), Eastern and Southern Europe, and Asia, dark complexion, generally illiterate, and poor?
Who was the head of the Political Machine in New York?
Boss Tweed
Preached salvation through service to the poor.
What is the social gospel movement?
What is the laws that aimed at keeping blacks and white seperate?
Jim Crow Laws
Process of learning all about and practicing American culture.
Americanization
An intense dislike of foreigners by native-born people
Nativism
Informal political group designed to gain power and hold on to it.
What are political machines?
The most famous political machine located in New York City.
What is Tammany Hall?
Name one pull factor of immigration.
What is money or better way of life or jobs or land or political freedom?
Name one push factor of immigration.
What is famine or war or recession?
America's greatest contribution to architecture that solved the issue of how to best use limited and expensive space.
What is skyscrapers?
A few large cities moved their streetcars far above street level, creating...
What are El trains?