Immigration Vocab
This term means to permanently move into another country?
What is immigrate?
This crop was infected with a fungus (blight) and forced millions of Irish to immigrate to the U.S.
What is the potato?
This term means covered with a thin layer of gold or gold color; decorated to look nicer than it really is.
What is gilded?
This Leader of Industry controlled most of the steel production in the U.S. by 1889.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This Leader of Industry controlled the New York Central Rail Company, one of the largest rail corporations of its time.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This term relates to a negative reason that makes people want to leave an area or place.
What is push factor?
This pull factor brought hundreds of thousands of Americans and immigrants alike to California in search of striking it rich.
What is the Gold Rush?
This term relates to all companies that produce a specific type of product or service.
What is an industry?
This Leader of Industry's company bought stocks in other companies and helped companies form corporations and monopolies.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
This term means a successful businessman who used unethical practices to make their wealth.
What is a Robber Baron?
This term relates to a positive factor that attracts people to a new area/place.
What is a pull factor?
This Act banned all new Chinese immigrants from immigrating to the U.S. from 1882-1943.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This term relates to a single person or company that has control of an entire industry.
What is a monopoly?
Congress kept U.S. goods cheaper during this time period by placing this on foreign goods.
What is a tariff?
This political party controlled Congress and kept Big Business unregulated during the Gilded Age.
This term means to exit a country and permanently move to another.
What is emigrate?
This pull factor was based on family members and friends sending letters back home explaining why others should immigrate to the U.S..
What is chain migration?
This term relates to a group that controls the activities of a political party.
What is a political machine?
This Leader of Industry helped fund a research institute center that has won numerous Nobel Prizes in the fields of science and medicine.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Under this Act, the U.S. Fed Govt offered up to 160 acres of lands, under the condition that those who applied met certain requirements.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
This term relates to a happy way of living that can be achieved by anyone in the U.S., especially by working hard and becoming successful.
What is the American Dream?
This anti-immigrant group was a U.S. political party that grew in popularity between the 1840s-1850s because of their support of nativism.
What is the Know Nothing Party
This term relates to a policy where government has no restrictions over businesses; production of goods is based on supply and demand.
What is Laissez-Faire?
Who was the Political Machine boss that ran Tammany Hall, a Democratic Political Machine in New York City.
Who is William Tweed/Boss Tweed?
This Act placed national quotas for approved immigration visas and banned immigration from Asia.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?