Vocabulary
Settlement Houses
Immigration
Old & New
Fresh Start
100

What does it mean to emigrate?

To leave your homeland 

100

What social reformer ran a prominent settlement house in the 1800s?

Jane Adams 

100

What were some push factor that made people leave there county?

*War 

* Unfair laws

* food shortage

*drought

* overcrowding

100

What country‘s were immigrates from the 1815-1880s coming from?

Ireland, England, Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, Japan, and China

100

What was the major city on the East that most Immigrants stationed in first?

New York

200

What does it mean to immigrate?

To settle in a new country.

200

What is a settlement house?

A place where pools can go for help.

200

What were sone pull factor that made people want to come to the US?

* Democracy 

*lots of jobs

* land/ homestead act 

* family 

*Gold Rush

200

What country‘s were immigrates from 1880s-1920s coming from?

Greece, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Lithuania, and Jews

200

What was the major city on the West that most immigrants stationed in first?

San Francisco

300

Famine 

An extreme shortage of food

300

Why did settlement house emerge?

Because of bad conditions in the tenements.

300

Define Nativism

People that did not like immigrants because they were taking there job.

300

What were some pull factors that pulled in immigrates from 1815-1880s?

Gold Rush, and Homestead act.

300

What was some methods immigrants used to become more like Americans?

Learning English, Dress different, Eat new foods.

400

Assimilation/Americanization

To absorb a group into culture of a larger population.

400

In what year did the hull house open?

1889

400

Define Prejudice

A negative option not based of facts.
400

What were some pull factors that pulled in immigrates from the 1880s-1920s?

Jobs, Industrial, Urban and Construction.

400

What was the name of the big station area in the East that immigrants had to go through before entering the US?

Ellis Island

500
Political machine 
An organization linked to a political party that often controlled local governments.
500

In what city was the Hull house prominent?

Chicago

500

Define discrimination 

unfair treatment of a group.

500

What was a one push factor that push immigrates from 1880s-1920s?

To escape political and religious discrimination.

500

What was the name of the big station area on the west that immigrants had to go through before entering the US?

Angle Island