Vocab
When a person moves to a different country.
What is Immigration?
Three types of accommodations on the ships that brought immigrants to America:
What is First class, Second class, and Steerage.
A group of immigrants who left their home country because of starvation due to diseased potatoes. AKA the potato Famine.
What is Irish Immigrants
This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States. For the first time, federal law banned entry of an ethnic working group.
What is the Chinese Immigration Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
A small dark apartment where many immigrants would live.
What is a tenement.
A policy of protecting the interests of native born people against immigrants.
What is Nativism?
Most immigrants would travel to America this way. The conditions were so crowded, so dark, so unsanitary and so foul-smelling on the boat.
What is Steerage.
Ill treatment due to a persons religion.
What is Religious Persecution?
This Immigration Act established a 50-cent tax to enter the country, to be paid by each immigrant upon entry. The Immigration Act also excluded "any convict, lunatic, or any person unable to take care of him or herself without becoming a public charge" from entry altogether.
What is the Immigration Act of 1882
A low income neighborhood where people from the same ethnicity or culture would live.
What is a ghetto?
When a person becomes apart of another culture.
What is Assimilate?
An island that processed the immigrants before getting into America.
What is Ellis Island?
What is Anti- semitism?
Religious Persecution
This Immigration Act established the 1890 census as the basis for determining how many immigrants would be admitted — the limit or (Quota) for each nationality was 3 percent of that nations population could live in the United States and this was recorded by the census takers.
What is The Immigration Act of 1924. (also known as the Johnson-Reed Act and the National Origins Act)
Conditions of streets in the early 1900s.
what is pot holes, Gravel and dirt, manure or waste. (very unsanitary or dirty)
The fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition
What is Ethnicity?
An eye disease that would be checked upon arrival to Ellis Island. Commonly used a button hook to check.
What is Trachoma?
People who are ill treated due to their political beliefs
What is Political Persecution?
What "streets paved of gold" actually meant.
Immigrants who assimilated faster than their families.
An organized massacre of a particular ethic group (Jewish Religion) in Russia.
What is Pogrom?
Another name for ellis Island.
What is Island of tears, What is island of hope, what is the gateway to the new world.
Another word for people who do not have a job and are very poor.
What is Poverty
List at least three pull factors of why immigrants wanted to come to America.
What is..
1. Political freedom/ democracy
2. Religious freedom
3. Job opportunities
4. Technological advancements
One way the city thought they could clean up the streets.
What is setting pigs out on the streets to eat up all the garbage?