Leaving Home
Scarcity of land and resources
Political or religious persecutions
Political unrest in countries
What are push factors?
What were the two locations where immigrants arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Ellis Island and Angel Island
What was a common misperception by immigrants?
Hearing that the streets in the United States was paved with gold.
They sought to limit immigration and preserve the country for native-born, white Protestants.
Who were nativists?
Who adapted more quickly to the culture in America?
Children of immigrants.
Industrial jobs in factories
New opportunities
Promise of freedom
What are pull factors?
About how long would an ocean voyage along the Atlantic would take?
One to two weeks.
What was usually the first thing newcomers needed to do when they entered the U.S.?
They needed to go out and find work.
Immigrants would not fit in because of different languages, religions and customs.
Immigrants would take jobs for low pay.
Immigrants were feared because they were different.
What are the reasons for nativists arguing against immigration?
Where did immigrants often settled in?
In their own ethnic neighborhoods.
In Eastern Europe, an organized attack on a Jewish community.
What is a pogrom?
Why would doctors be watching the newly arrived immigrants coming up a flight of stairs?
English, Irish, Germans, and Scandinavians
Who were the "old" immigrants?
Barred Chinese laborers from entering the country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What was central to immigrant family life?
Religion
Between 1865 and 1915, about how many immigrants came into the United States?
25 million immigrants
The name of the immigrant.
The country of origin.
Occupation or skill.
These are questions that being asked of immigrants at their interview.
Italians, Poles, Greeks, Russians, and Hungarians
Who were the "new" immigrants?
1943
Why did the Irish leave Ireland in the 1840s and 1850s?
To escape the potato famine in Ireland.
Airless rooms below deck on a ship.
What is steerage?
I was here for one autumn.
The Americans did not allow me to land.
I was ordered to be deported.
A poem by an Asian immigrant on Angel Island.
The process of adapting to a new culture and making changes while holding on to older traditions.
What is acculturation?
What new law in 1917 was passed despite Woodrow Wilson's veto?
The law denying people entry into the U.S. if they could not read in their own language.
Another name for a nativist organization pressuring Congress to restrict immigration.
What is the American Protective Association?