Old vs. New Immigrants
Region where most old immigrants came from before the 1870s.
What is Northern and Western Europe?
Name of the lowest, dirtiest part of the ship where many immigrants traveled.
What is Steerage?
This was the goal of the Americanization Movement.
What is helping immigrants assimilate into American culture?
This was the major U.S. industry did Chinese and Irish immigrants helped build.
What is the Railroad industry?
Region where most new immigrants come from after the 1870s.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
Major immigration station that processed Europeans arriving in New York Harbor.
What is Ellis Island
These were neighborhoods populated by immigrants.
What are ethnic neighborhoods?
This dish was popularized by Italian immigrants.
What is Spaghetti?
Major push factors that drove immigrants to leave their home countries.
What is war, famine, persecution, and poverty?
This is the percentage of Immigrants denied entry at Ellis Island.
What is 2%
This was the preference of white American-born citizens over immigrants.
What is nativism?
This sport was invented by Canadian immigrant James Naismith
What is Basketball?
These were major pull factor that attracted immigrants to America.
What are jobs, land, freedom, and opportunity.
This was the immigration station on the West Coast that processed Chinese immigrants.
What is Angel Island?
This law banned Chinese laborers from immigrating to the U.S. in 1882
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A major invention created by Alexander Graham Bell
What is the telephone?
Group that fled religious persecution in the 1880s and became one of the largest immigrant groups.
What are Russian and Eastern European Jews?
Reason why Chinese immigrants were often detained on Ellis Island for weeks or months.
What is Officials suspected fraud and used harsh questioning to restrict entry?
This term described America as a place where different nationalities blended into one culture
What is a "Melting Pot"?
This immigrant labor leader helped shape modern unionism.
Who was Samuel Gompers?