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group of immigrants that immigrated before the 1880s
What are the Old Immigrants?
a century in which southern and eastern immigrants started immigrating to the United States
what is the 1800s?
most immigrants during the 1880s came from these areas in Europe
What is South and East Europe?
This city was an important place for immigrants, home of Ellis Island.
What is New York City?
many immigrants worked these jobs.
What are construction workers and miners?
poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings
What are tenements?
this immigration processing center opened in the East Coast mainly for European immigrants in 1892
what is Ellis Island?
many immigrants had diverse religions, especially these three.
What are Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics, and Jewish People?
this statue was a important figure of liberty to new immigrants
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This is the main economic productivity of immigrants.
What is labor?
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
this immigration processing center opened in the west coast mainly for Chinese immigrants in 1910
What is Angel island?
immigrant neighborhoods were important because of this reason.
What is they could speak their native languages and practice their culture?
This city in Texas harbored many Mexican immigrants.
What is El Paso?
many immigrants lived in tenements because they were this.
What is poor?
the area on the ship in the lower levels where steering mechanisms were located.
What is Steerage?
this law banned Chinese immigrants from immigrating to the U.S for ten years.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What are newspapers, schools, and banks?
Most immigrants lived in these cities.
What is Chicago, Boston, and New York?
Enforcement often looked after this portion of society rather than the other.
What is the wealthy?
organizations created by immigrants to help each other in times of sickness, unemployment, or other troubles
What were Benevolent Societies?
a law passed in 1892 restricted many people from entering the country, including:
What are convicts, immigrants with certain diseases, and immigrants likely to need public assistance before entering the country?
many immigrant communities created benevolent societies because of these reasons.
What was to create a community help each other out?
These are places where immigrants are detained for an undetermined about of time.
What were immigration processing centers?
Most immigrants went from farm work to this work in America.
What is industrialization work?