People Moving
Reasons people move
Effects of Immigration
Laws/legal issues
People and Places
100
Moving to a new country and establishing a permanent home there.
What is immigration?
100
Protection granted by one nation to a refugee of another nation, usually due to political unrest in the home country.
What is Asylum?
100
Tight and overcrowded areas below the decks of ships, which were often only affordable options for immigrants purchasing tickets to the United States.
What is Steerage?
100
A legal permit to enter a country.
What is a Visa?
100
Social worker and activist who co-founded Hull House, advocated for underrepresented groups in society, and was a major leader in the public health and woman's suffrage movements.
Who was Jane Addams?
200
Leaving a country to settle in another country
What is to Emmigrate?
200
The subjecting of certain people to cruel or unfair treatment because of their ethnic or religious beliefs.
What is persecution?
200
Native-born, white American who held the false and harmful belief that immigrants were dangerous, too different, and should not be allowed into the country.
What is a Nativist?
200
A governmental regulation which allows a limited number of immigrants per year to enter a country
What is a Quota System?
200
Jewish American poet who wrote a famous poem welcoming immigrants to the U.S. called "The New Colossus," located on a bronze plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Who was Emma Lazarus?
300
Large scale movement of people from rural areas and other countries into the cities.
What is Urbanization?
300
Reasons that people move away from their original country, such as overcrowding, poverty, violence, and discrimination.
What are Push Factors?
300
Small and inexpensive city apartments that were often run down and overcrowded with multiple families living in the same spaces.
What are Tenements?
300
The process by which an immigrant gains the rights of a natural born citizen.
What is Naturalism?
300
Entrance and inspection point for European immigrants in New York Harbor, located near the Statue of Liberty.
What is Ellis Island?
400
A person who flees from a place to escape danger or persecution.
What is a Refugee?
400
Reasons that people move to live in a country, such as job opportunities, land ownership, safety, and increased freedoms.
What are pull factors?
400
City neighborhoods that have large populations living in crowded tenements with limited access to water, hygiene and other basic needs.
What are slums?
400
A law passed by Congress that banned most people in Asia from entering the United States and required all immigrants to complete literacy tests to enter the country.
What is the Immigration Act of 1917?
400
Entrance and inspection, and detention point for Asian immigrants in San Francisco Bay.
What is Angel Island?
500
Groups with different ethnic, religious, or political backgrounds living within one society.
What is Pluralism?
500
This type of event could lead to people fleeing to another country- they would be called....
What is a Refugee?
500
Process in which immigrants adopt the customs, traditions, and values of their new country, sometimes at the expense of their original culture..
What is Assimilation?
500
A law passed by Congress that prohibited people living in China from immigrating to the United States
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
The continent with the highest amount of immigration to the United States.
What is Europe?