Push and Pull Factors
Economic Hardship
What is a push factor?
This legislation banned workers from China for 60 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
This is the term used for the title of a newspaper article.
What is headline?
The year the fire occurred.
What is 1911?
What is a pull factor?
When immigrants created their own cultural enclaves like Chinatown and Little Italy, this was know as.
What is cultural preservation?
This is the term used for the first paragraph in a newspaper article.
What is the lead?
This is the reason why the doors were locked.
What is to keep the unions out?
The reason the Irish came to America in the late 1800s.
What is famine?
This symbol was used to describe the full assimilation of immigrants into the American culture.
What is a melting pot?
The term used for anti-immigrant sentiment and discrimination during the 1800s.
What is nativism?
What is
rusted, old fire escape
doors locked
ladder too short?
The reason Jews came to America during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What is religious persecution or anti-semitism?
Fear of losing jobs
Religious intolerance
Belief that immigrants were illiterate, dirty, criminals.
This is the term used to describe how immigrant groups maintained their own culture and traditions.
What is cultural preservation?
This is how some women escaped the fire.
What is by elevator or jumping onto adjacent rooftops?
Name three push factor that led immigrants to leave their countries.
What is economic hardship, religious persecution, political unrest, lack of social mobility?
The political party that opposed immigrants.
What is the Know Nothing Party (or the American Party)?
The term used to describe immigrants who fully adopted American culture and traditions.
What is assimilation?
The fire was a significant historical event and led to this.
What is labor rights or safety legislation in the workplace?