PUSH FACTORS
When there is a lack of food (like in Ireland when potato crops perished).
What is famine?
The section of the ship that was located under the lower deck, where cargo was stored this section was used to provide the lowest cost of travel for immigrants.
What is steerage?
The name of the smaller processing centers that immigrants came through on the East Coast before Ellis Island was built.
What was Castle Garden or Castle Clinton?
Greedy factory owners took advantage of immigrants by _________.
What is using child labor, paying low wages, forcing them to work long hours in dirty or unsafe working conditions?
Name a "pull factor" that motivated people who had relatives in America to come to America.
What is family reunification or to be with family?
When a person is not allowed to openly practice their religion.
What is religious persecution, prejudice, or discrimination?
On average it took ____ weeks to sail from Europe to New York.
What is 2 weeks?
The number of questions the immigrants were asked during the processing experience at Ellis Island.
What was 29 questions?
Immigrants lived in ___________, high rise buildings that were often, overcrowded, dirty and lacked plumbing and electricity.
What were tenements?
The number of immigrants that were pulled to the United States between 1870 and 1900.
What is about 12 million?
When one person controls the government and people are not allowed to vote for their leader.
What is a dictatorship or a monarchy?
The term for when someone leaves their home county and goes to live in another country.
What is emigrate?
The third class passengers were processed only after the __________ and __________ passengers.
What were the first and second class passengers?
1 in 7 people died from ______ in NYC during the 1800s
What is Tuberculosis
In the early 1800s, immigrants were primarily coming from which 3 countries?
What are Germany, Ireland, and England?
When there is no way to make a living to support one's family.
What are lack of jobs (employment opportunities)?
The term for when someone arrives in a new country after leaving their home country.
What is immigrate?
The famous statue that greeted the newly arriving immigrants in New Your Harbor.
What was the Statue of Liberty?
The process of changing one's culture/habits to "fit in" with the culture they are moving to.
What is assimilation or assimilate?
An economic reason immigrants were pulled to the U.S. was ____________ or _____________.
1. What was land ownership?
or
2. What was job (employment) opportunities?
Those who label themselves as refugees are escaping ________.
What is war, danger, or violence?
Identify three conditions of the steerage section of the ship.
What are:
1) Overcrowded
2) Dirty
3) Dark
4) Poor food
5) Poor air quality
The two nicknames for Ellis Island.
What was the "Isle of Hope" and the "Isle of Tears?"
Give 3 examples of technological or industrial advancements that were made in cities in the early 1900s.
What is increased wages, sanitation systems, plumbing systems, improved healthcare/medicine, improved transportation, windows added to apartments for ventilation, labor laws?
The "new" immigrants typically spoke a different language, practiced a different religion, celebrated different holidays and displayed different social norms than the native born Americans and the "old" immigrants, as a result they faced increased levels of ___________.
What is discrimination?