VOCABULARY
Define Immigrant
a person who moves to another country after leaving his or her homeland
How are immigration, industrialization, and urbanization linked?
They all led to the growth of cities.
Each fed the other.
Explain 3 reason that people chose to leave their countries and come to America? Push Factors?
Poverty, Religious Oppression, Political Oppression
Who was Jacob Riis?
Jacob Riis was a photographer who took photos of immigrants and tenements and published them in newspapers and books. His work drew attention to poor working conditions, the horrible conditions in tenements and child labor
Where is Ellis Island located?
Define tenement
poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived
What was a neighborhood with immigrants from the same country called?
ethnic enclave
What were the reasons people were pulled/attracted to America? Pull factors?
Political freedom, job opportunities, land
What industry is Andrew Carnegie associated with?
The steel industry.
Where is Angel Island located?
San Francisco, CA
industrialization
the process of making products by hand to making products by machines
How did steel change the growth of cities?
Skyscrapers, bridges and subways systems were built using steel.
Factories developed because of steel.
Jews leaving Europe to flee anti-semitism is an example of a push or pull factor?
push factor
How did John D. Rockefeller become rich?
Oil Industry
By 1920 more people worked in ________________ than in agriculture?
manufacturing (factory jobs)
Define assimilation
he process of becoming a part, or making someone become a part, of a group, country, society, etc.
Increase in cultural institutions, building of skyscrapers, increase in population due to immigration and urbanization, building of bridges and subway system.
One of the first things done to new immigrants upon arrival at Ellis Island or Angel Island was they were given a _____________
health screening or physical exam
What were Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt known as?
Tycoons of Industry or Robber Barons
What year was the Chinese Exclusion Act passed?
1882
Define the term Nativist.
A native-born American who is against immigration.
They assimilated or maintained their culture by living in ethnic enclaves.
Name 2 countries that immigrants came from in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Ireland, Germany, China, Japan, Italy, Russia
What was the name of the industry tycoon who invested in the railroads?
Vanderbilt.