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Push Pull Factors
Ellis Island/Angel Island
City Life
European Immigrants
Political Reactions
100
What was one push factor for the Irish immigrants in the 1800's?
potato famine
100
Where did most immigrant arriving in the US in the late 1800's arrive through the West coast?
Angel Island
100
What was the name of the crowded apartment complexes that multi-family immigrants lived in?
Tenements
100
Where were the majority of immigrants from in the Gilded Age? Be Specific.
Southern and Eastern Europe
100
What group favored native born people and wanted to limit immigration?
Nativists
200
What are pull factors for any immigrants coming to America? Name 3.
money, jobs, freedom, family, religion
200
What was the 1st thing the immigrants saw as they approached Ellis Island?
Statue of Liberty
200
What was the name of the shelters provided by charitable (religious) organizations?
Settlement Houses
200
The largest identified group of immigrants come from what country?
Germans
200
Who are the people that did favors for immigrants to get their votes?
Political Bosses
300
What was the biggest push factor for the Eastern European Jews?
Religious Persecution
300
What percentage of people died on the steamships coming to America?
10%
300
What are 3 negatives of life immigrants were faced with on a daily basis?
overcrowding, filth, poor housing, pollution, disease, crime...
300
Where did the European farmers settle in the US?
Mid-West
300
How were urban immigrants influenced to support local, political machines?
They were provided essential services (housing, health, education, food).
400
List 3 primary current push factors today for immigrants.
Drugs, War, disease, lack of money,jobs, etc.
400
What items were immigrants inspected for at Ellis Island before they could enter America? (list 3)
health, could they make $/hold jobs, family history, papers/documents,
400
How did immigrants group themselves in housing to feel more comfortable?
Ethnic Enclaves
400
How many European Immigrants came through Ellis Island
17 million
400
What was the purpose of the Americanization movement?
to assimilate immigrants into the American culture.
500
Name a situation that is both a push and a pull factor? (as discussed in class)
Coming to American for $ and then sending $ back to your family in your home country
500
What act prohibited the number of Chinese Immigrants entering America?
Chinese Exclusion Act
500
Why did urban areas grow so fast during the Gilded Ages? (2 answers)
Industrialization and immigration
500
What were the two biggest groups of European Immigrants
Who were the Italians and Austro-Hungarians
500
This was the person who controlled the Political Power in NY during the Gilded Age
Who was William Boss Tweed