Push Factors
These are reasons that force people to leave their home country.
Push Factors
These are reasons that attract people to move to a new country.
Pull Factors
This famous immigration station processed immigrants arriving on the East Coast.
Ellis Island
Crowded apartment buildings where many immigrants lived in cities were called this.
Tenements
This word describes a person who moves from one country to live permanently in another.
Immigrant
Lack of jobs, poverty, and crop failures are examples of this type of push factor.
Many immigrants came to America looking for these during the Industrial Revolution.
Jobs
This immigration station processed many immigrants arriving from Asia on the West Coast.
Angel Island
Many immigrants worked long hours in these buildings that produced goods with machines.
Factories
Many immigrants came from this continent during the 1800s.
Europe
This potato disease in Ireland caused starvation and forced many people to immigrate to America.
Irish Potato Famine
This act allowed immigrants and settlers to receive land if they lived on and farmed it.
The Homestead Act
Most immigrants traveling to America in the 1800s crossed this ocean.
Atlantic Ocean
The movement of people from rural areas to cities is called this.
Urbanization
Many immigrants who fled the potato famine came from this country.
Ireland
Wars, unfair governments, and revolutions are examples of these types of push factors.
Political Problems
The belief that people could achieve success through hard work in America is called this.
The American Dream
Immigrants arriving in New York Harbor often first saw this famous statue symbolizing freedom.
Statue of Liberty
When immigrants adopt the language and customs of their new country it is called this.
Assimilation
Many immigrants from this country came after failed revolutions in 1848.
Germany
When people are treated unfairly or attacked because of their religion, it is called this.
Religious Persecution
Freedom to practice any religion was a major pull factor known as this type of freedom.
Religious Freedom
Due to new technology in the 1800's, many immigrants arrived on ships powered by this.
Steam
This type of discrimination involved people wanting to limit immigration and favor native-born Americans.
Nativism
Many immigrants from this country helped build railroads in the western United States.
China