PUSH FACTORS
When there is a lack of food.
What is "famine?"
The section of the ship that was located under the lower deck, where cargo was stored this section was used to provide the lowest cost of travel for immigrants.
What is steerage?
What Angels Island?
Immigrants typically settled in areas called ______ _______ these were cities known for a particular industry like steel, meatpacking, textile and the automobile.
What are specialized industries?
Name a "pull factor" that motivated people who had relatives in America to come to America.
What is family reunification?
When a person is not allowed to openly practice their religion.
What is religious persecution?
On average it took ____ days to sail from Europe to New York.
What is 12 days?
The number of questions the immigrants were asked during the processing experience at Ellis Island.
What was 29 questions?
Immigrants lived in ___________, high rise buildings that were often, overcrowded, dirty and lacked plumbing and electricity.
What were tenements or apartments?
The number of immigrants that were pulled to the United States between 1870 and 1900
12 million
When a government does not allow for political freedoms.
What is an oppressive gov't?
The term for when someone leaves their home county and goes to live in another county.
What is emigrate?
The third class passengers were processed only after the __________ and __________ passengers.
What were the first and second class passengers?
2 exams immigrants went through at Ellis Island.
What is wellness, teeth, eyes, mental, education, potential job, marriage potential (beauty)?
In the early 1800s, immigrants were primarily coming from which 3 countries?
Germany, Ireland and England
When there is no way to make a living to support one's family.
What are lack of jobs (employment opportunities)?
The process of changing one's culture/habits to "fit in" with the culture they are moving to
Assimilation
The famous statue that greeted the newly arriving immigrants in New Your Harbor.
What was the Statue of Liberty?
These groups of people helped immigrants find jobs and housing, but wanted votes and favors in return.
What were the political machines?
An economic reason immigrants were pulled to the U.S. was ____________ or _____________.
1. What was land ownership?
or
2. What was job (employment) opportunities?
Those who label themselves as refugees are escaping ________.
What is war?
Identify three conditions of the steerage section (lowest class area) of the ship.
What are:
1) Overcrowded
2) Dirty
3) Dark
4) poor food
5) poor air quality
The two nick names for Ellis Island.
What was the "Isle of Hope" and the "Isle of Tears?"
Give 2 examples of advancements that were made in cities in the early 1900s
Increased wages, sanitation systems, plumbing systems, improved healthcare/medicine, improved transportation, windows added to apartments for ventilation, labor laws
The "new" immigrants typically spoke a different language, practiced a different religion, celebrated different holidays and displayed different social norms than the native born Americans and the "old" immigrants, as a result they faced increased levels of ___________.
What is discrimination?