Vocabulary
Hope of a better ______ to make more money.
Boot shaped country, famous for pizza and pasta.
Italy.
Person who is legally recognized to be a member of a certain country.
Citizen.
What major US city did most immigrants arrive at during the 1900s?
New York City.
A refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest.
Strike.
Fighting has broken out into a full scale ________ in their home country.
War.
Green, potatoes, St. Patrick.
Ireland.
Disliking someone based on their race or culture.
Racism.
How did the typical immigrant family arrive to the United States in the early 1900s?
By a long, ship journey.
*6-12 weeks on average.
The process of fitting in with the culture, language, food and dressing of your new country.
Assimilation.
Not enough food to eat, it has become a ________.
Famine.
Large, "Red," Communist country.
Russia.
A person who campaigns to bring about political or social change.
Activist.
First "stop" of the immigrant experience. Place where it was decided whether or not immigrants could enter the country.
Ellis Island.
Union.
An oppressive regime has control of the ________.
Government.
Religion of the people primarily persecuted during the Holocaust.
Jews or Jewish.
A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
Factory.
What was a major reason businesses in the US hired immigrants to work?
They would work for lower pay.
A run down apartment that immigrants frequently lived in sometimes with many other families, in small, cramped conditions.
Tenement House.
They've lost their ______, and need a new place to live.
Home/living conditions.
Country whose capital is Warsaw.
Poland.
The opposite of justice.
Injustice.
What demographic of immigrants was able to work in the 1900s but is not allowed to work in the US today?
Children.