Chp 16 Immigration

Places

100

This U.S. state benefited the most from Chinese immigration

California

200

This describes when cities grow and become more populous

Urbanization

300

This religious group faced religious discrimination throughout Europe leading many to seek refuge in the U.S.

Jewish immigrants

400

Which two regions of the U.S. became home to many European immigrants

Midwest and East 

500

This describes communities where immigrants tried to maintain their ethnic identity and culture, and to not be fully American

ethnic neighborhoods

Key Terms

100

This is the economic process which gave many immigrants jobs in big cities throughout the U.S. from the mid 1800s to early 1900s

Industrialization

200

This describes why a person would want to leave their homeland to live somewhere else

Push factor

300

This is the process of becoming less of your home nation's culture and identity and adopting the culture and identity of the place where you now live

Assimilation

400

This describes why a person would want to live in a new place such as moving to the U.S.

Pull factor

500

These organizations offered to help immigrants get settled in the U.S. in exchange for votes

Political machines; example: Tammany Hall

Miscellaneous

100

This is the part of the Europe home to immigrants such as the Polish and Russian

Eastern Europe

200

This nation suffered a great famine in the early 1800s resulting in many of its people moving to the U.S.

Ireland 

300

This group of immigrants were temporarily banned from entering the U.S. in the 1880s, and suffered great discrimination 

China

400

These organizations helped to improve working conditions for working people (including immigrants) in the late 1800s/early 1900s

Labor unions/unions

500

The discriminatory idea often based on hatred that immigrants were less the people who had been native-born Americans

Nativism