Vocab
What does homogenous mean?
The same
When all property, work, and goods are owned and distributed by the government
Communism
The first European in the Americas
Leif Eriksson (viking from Greenland, around 1000 CE)
What year was the California Gold Rush? (Hint: Think of the NFL team)
1849
led a movement to increase pay for farmworkers and allow them to unionize
Cesar Chavez
The cheap apartments that multiple immigrant families would share in a city
Tenements
The land bridge that used to connect Asia and North America; the first Native Americans passed over this to enter the Americas
Beringia
Name of the area below deck of a ship; poor immigrants could only pay to travel here
Steerage
The two jobs most early Chinese immigrants worked
Gold mining and railroad building
When the U.S. allowed Mexicans to temporarily work on farms (because of WW2 labor shortage)
Bracero Program
Good things that attract people to move to a country (either Pull or Push Factors)
Pull Factors
Fear of immigrants/foreigners
Xenophobia
Southern and eastern Europe (e.g., Italy, Russia, Poland) (either First Wave or Second Wave)
Second Wave (Great Wave) of European Immigration (1880s-1920s)
Internment camps
Cortes and Pizarro were Spanish ___________
Conquistadors (they defeated Native American nations)
A person who flees to a foreign country to escape danger or persecution
Refugee
To adopt the cultural traditions of a new country/group to fit in
Assimilation
Northern and western Europe (e.g., Britain, Ireland, Germany) (First Wave or Second Wave)
First Wave of European Immigration (early 1800s)
Why were Chinese immigrants often favored by bosses for jobs?
They did the same work for less pay
Cubans escaping Cuba to the U.S. on rafts after the Soviet Union collapsed
Balseros
Protection from being deported back to your home country (only certain groups are eligible, such as refugees)
Asylum
A fixed limit (number or percentage) of people allowed to immigrate into the U.S. from other countries
Quota
The Immigration Act of 1924 created an unfair quota system which resulted in 70% of visas going to immigrants from which three countries?
Britain, Germany, and Ireland (based it on the 1890 census)
How was Angel Island different from Ellis Island?
Immigrants were detained and interrogated
the Pope drew a line to divide the Americas between Spain and Portugal
Treaty of Tordesillas