European Immigrants
Urbanization
Vocabulary
Acronyms
Other Immigrants
100
How most all immigrants got to the United States by 1900.
What is by steamship?
100
The United States city that had the first street cars or trolley cars.
What is San Francisco?
100
A mixture of people from different cultures and races who blend together by abandoning their native languages and cultures.
What is a melting pot?
100
IDK
What is I Don't Know?
100
Where most immigrants from Asia entered the United States.
What is Angel Island?
200
Two reasons that European immigrants left their homelands for the US.
What are to escape religious persecution, to escape famine, over crowding, new independent life.
200
First United States city to have an electric subway.
What is Boston?
200
A multifamily urban dwelling, usually overcrowded and unsanitary.
What is a tenement?
200
AKA
What is Also Known As?
200
Where most immigrants from Mexico entered the United States.
What is the Southwest?
300
Where most European immigrants entered the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
300
The main reason that African Americans moved to the cities in the North.
What is to escape racial violence and discrimination?
300
A community center providing assistance to residents, particularly immigrants, in a slum neighborhood.
What is a settlement house?
300
ETA
What is Estimated Time of Arrival?
300
Which two countries provided the majority of Asian immigrants during this period?
What are China and Japan?
400
This is what happened in Ireland that forced many Irish immigrants to the United States.
What is a Potato Famine?
400
The main reason that farmers moved to the cities of the North.
What is they were replaced by technology and they needed jobs?
400
Favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people.
What is nativism?
400
AWOL
What is Absent With Out Leave?
400
One reason that immigrants from Mexico came to the United States.
What are to escape political turmoil and to find jobs?
500
Three major countries where the "New Immigrants" from Europe came from.
What are Russia, Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungry, Ireland.
500
The two main reasons that immigrants moved to the cities in the North.
What is cheap and convenient?
500
Education program designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture.
What is the Americanization Movement?
500
BOGO
What is Buy One Get One?
500
The main reason that most Asian immigrants came to the United States.
What is to get rich or mine for gold?
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