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The group of immigrants that immigrated after 1865
What are the New 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 of Europe
What is South and East Europe?
This city was an important place for immigrants, home of Ellis Island.
What is New York City?
This author wrote a book entitled "How the Other Half Lives."
Who was Jacob Riis
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?
Law banning Chinese people from immigration to the United States
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 Wisconsin harbored many German immigrants.
What is Milwaukee?
This man formed the American Protective Association in 1887.
Who is Henry Bowers?
The area on the ship was located at the lower levels where steering mechanisms and storage were located.
What is Steerage?
The transcontinental railroad and Gold Rush were __________ factors for many Chinese immigrants
What is a PULL factor
Immigrants had to do this to successfully adjust to life in urban America.
What are learning English, English literacy, and adapting to American culture?
Most immigrants lived in these cities.
What is Chicago, Boston, and New York?
This man organized the Workingman's Party of California which worked against Chinese immigration.
Who is Dennis Kearney?
This is an extreme dislike of immigrants by native-born people.
What is Nativism?
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?
Because of these reasons, many immigrant communities were formed as enclaves (Little Italy, China Town, etc.).
What was to create a community that shared common cultures and beliefs
An enclave in Michigan named Hamtramck was a popular destination for people of what nationality?
Who are the Polish?
The influx of immigrants shifted labor from farm work to this type of work in America during the late 1890's and early 1900's.
What is industrialization work?