PUSH FACTORS
Government failing and needing to _________ to support their country
What is Raise Taxes?
The growth of cities which brought immigrants to the U.S.
What is urbanization?
Immigrants lived in ___________, high rise buildings that were often, overcrowded, dirty and lacked plumbing and electricity.
What were tenements?
A wide range in programs targeting problems in the 1890’s
What is progressivism?
What is the pull factor that brought Chinese immigrants to the United States?
What is the gold rush?
Immigrants fled their country due to _______ among the government and citizens.
What is Political Conflict?
Group of people trying to escape discrimination and violence and start a new life in the cities
What is African Americans?
The port of entry for many Asian immigrants.
What is Angel Island?
A mixture of people from different cultures and races who blend together
What is melting pot?
The number of immigrants that were pulled to the United States between 1866-1915.
What was over 25 million?
Industrialization led to more job opportunities which was appealing to immigrants because of _________in their countries
What is Job Shortages?
The term for when someone leaves their home county and goes to live in another county.
What is emigrate?
Most European immigrants stopped here for processing after 1892.
What is Ellis Island?
Provide help and assistance to immigrants living in slum neighborhoods.
What is Settlement Houses?
People wanting a new life and to achieve the American Dream
What is Immigrant?
The potato blight in this country caused many people to leave for America.
What is Ireland?
This term describes the act of coming to live permanently in a new country.
What is immigration?
The famous statue that greeted the newly arriving immigrants in New Your Harbor.
What was the Statue of Liberty?
The process to teach immigrants English, cooking, social etiquette, and relinquish their home country
What is to Americanization?
3 New methods of mass transportation during the turn of the 21st century
What is electric street car, airplane, and automobile
Many Europeans were going through this and in order to survive emigrated to America
What is crop failure and famine?
Immigrants from this country were banned from entering the US in 1882.
What is China?
Ultimate symbol of American success!
What is Skyscrapers?
This is a policy of giving preference to people who are from a specific country rather than to immigrants.
What is nativism?
Three pull factors that made immigrants come to America in the early 1900's
What is no more poverty, lots of jobs, and the land of opportunity?