Immigration
What is an immigrant?
What is a person who leaves one country to live permanently in another?
Where is Ellis Island and where did most of the immigrants come from?
What is New York City Harbor; Southern and Eastern Europe (New) and Northern and Western Europe (Old)?
Who wrote The Jungle?
True or False? Progressives wanted to promote social equality?
What is true?
What did immigrants bring with them to the United States?
What is only what they could carry?
What is a pull factor?
What is reasons people came to the place they emigrated to?
What is steerage and which passengers rode in it?
What is lowest deck of a ship; poor immigrants who could not afford a higher class ticket?
What did progressives want to reform?
Nativism is the belief that...
Which island had longer detentions, harsh questioning, and stricter enforcement?
What is Angel Island?
What is a push factor?
What is reasons people left their home countries?
Where is Angel Island and where did most of the immigrants come from?
What is San Francisco Bay; Asia?
Which book did Jacob Riis write?
What is How the Other Half Lives?
Which act/law made it illegal for Chinese Workers to immigrate to the United States?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
Which form of assimilation is when immigrants come to the United States and their culture changes, as does that of the United States, forming a brand new culture?
What is Melting Pot?
What is a refugee?
What is someone forced to leave their country because of war, persecution, or natural disaster?
Which island (Ellis or Angel) sent more people back to the place they came from when trying to immigrate to the U.S.?
What is Angel Island?
Muckrakers were __________ who exposed corruption, social problems, and unsafe conditions through their research and writing.
What is Journalists?
What is assimilation and what is one example?
What is the process in which immigrants adapt to the place and culture they immigrate to; Americanization (unilateral assimilation), Melting Pot (multilateral assimilation), Salad Bowl (cultural pluralism)?
Which immigrants (Old or New) had an easier time assimilating and why?
What is Old Immigrants; they spoke English more easily and shared similar cultural and religious backgrounds with Americans at this time.
Name 2 push factors AND 2 pull factors that might occur.
What is... Push factors: Poverty and lack of jobs, Famine or food shortages, Political persecution or war, Religious persecution, Overpopulation and limited land
Pull factors: Availability of jobs and land, Promise of freedom (religious, political, speech), “American Dream” / opportunity for a better life, Industrial jobs in growing cities, Family already living in the U.S.
Name 2 tests you had to complete at Ellis Island.
What is Medical exam, Literacy test, Legal interview/questioning, Background and financial check?
What were the outcomes of BOTH How the Other Half Lives and The Jungle?
What is food safety laws such as Pure Food and Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act; created housing laws/requirements such as windows, bathrooms, and running water.
Before which year was considered "Old Immigrants" and where did they primarily come from?
What is before 1880; Northern and Western Europe (Ireland, Germany, England)?
Most of the New Immigrants to come to the United States (1880-1920) came from?
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?