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?
The name of the processing center that immigrants came through on the West Coast?
What was Angel Island?
Immigrants went to what city to receive services from Jane Addams' Hull House?
What is Chicago?
Name the 1882 law that limited Chinese Emigration to 105 per year because of supposed job competition with Chinese immigrants?
What is The Chinese Exclusion Act?
When a person is not allowed to openly practice their religion.
What is religious persecution?
What was the name of the poem that welcomed immigrants after 1903 with the words "Give me your tired your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?"
What is "The New Colossus?"?
Who was the German-Jewish author who wrote "The New Colossus" after she escaped religious persecution in Russia?
Who was Emma Lazarus?
Immigrants lived in ___________, high rise buildings that were often, overcrowded, dirty and lacked plumbing and electricity.
What were tenements?
The number of immigrants that were pulled to the United States between 1880 and 1920
23 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?
These were the two types of examinations immigrants had to pass to get through Ellis Island.
What were "medical and legal?"
What was the infant mortality rate among Italian immigrant in New York during this time period?
What is one-third or 30%
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
It's the famous statue that greeted the newly arriving immigrants in New York Harbor (style points if you know the actual name of the piece of art) .
What was the Statue of Liberty (or "Liberty Enlightening the World")?
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 of the ship.
What are:
1) Overcrowded
2) Dirty
3) Dark
4) poor food
5) poor air quality
The two nicknames for Ellis Island.
What was the "Isle of Hope" and the "Isle of Tears?"
Give 3 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?