Vocabulary
What does it mean to emigrate?
To leave your homeland
What social reformer ran a prominent settlement house in the 1800s?
Jane Adams
What were some push factor that made people leave there county?
*War
* Unfair laws
* food shortage
*drought
* overcrowding
What country‘s were immigrates from the 1815-1880s coming from?
Ireland, England, Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, Japan, and China
What was the major city on the East that most Immigrants stationed in first?
New York
What does it mean to immigrate?
To settle in a new country.
What is a settlement house?
A place where pools can go for help.
What were sone pull factor that made people want to come to the US?
* Democracy
*lots of jobs
* land/ homestead act
* family
*Gold Rush
What country‘s were immigrates from 1880s-1920s coming from?
Greece, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Lithuania, and Jews
What was the major city on the West that most immigrants stationed in first?
San Francisco
Famine
An extreme shortage of food
Why did settlement house emerge?
Because of bad conditions in the tenements.
Define Nativism
People that did not like immigrants because they were taking there job.
What were some pull factors that pulled in immigrates from 1815-1880s?
Gold Rush, and Homestead act.
What was some methods immigrants used to become more like Americans?
Learning English, Dress different, Eat new foods.
Assimilation/Americanization
To absorb a group into culture of a larger population.
In what year did the hull house open?
1889
Define Prejudice
What were some pull factors that pulled in immigrates from the 1880s-1920s?
Jobs, Industrial, Urban and Construction.
What was the name of the big station area in the East that immigrants had to go through before entering the US?
Ellis Island
In what city was the Hull house prominent?
Chicago
Define discrimination
unfair treatment of a group.
What was a one push factor that push immigrates from 1880s-1920s?
To escape political and religious discrimination.
What was the name of the big station area on the west that immigrants had to go through before entering the US?
Angle Island