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What are the areas that are located in the country where there are not many buildings, roads, and people?
Rural area
What is the mistreatment of people based on their beliefs?
Persecution
What is a Famine?
an extreme shortage of food within a town, city, or country
What is a tenemant?
poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings
What is the mistreatment of people based on characteristics such as race, nationality, or gender?
Discrimination
What is the area below a ship’s deck where immigrants often traveled?
Steerage
What is poverty?
he state of being extremely poor
What is mass transit?
public transportation designed to move a large number of people
What are factors for wanting to leave somewhere?
Push Factors
What were the workplaces in small shops with poor working conditions and low pay?
Sweatshop
What are the factors for wanting to move somewhere?
Pull Factors
What is assimlation?
process in which immigrant families adopted some American beliefs and aspects of American culture
What is the definition of Immigration?
when someone leaves their home country to live in a different country, either temporarily or permanently
What is a residential neighborhoods outside of downtown areas?
Suburbs
What are the areas that are located in the country where there are alot of buildings, roads, and people?
Urban Areas
What is mass culture?
leisure and cultural activities shared by many people
Who are the Old Immigrants?
people who arrived from southern and eastern Europe in the late 1800s
Who is Jacob Riis?
journalist and photographer who exposed the horrible conditions in New York City tenements
Who are the new Immigrants?
the people who arrived from northern Europe in the mid-1800s
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
the law banning immigration by Chinese people for ten years