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Reasons to Move to America
Cities
Journey to America
Helping and Hurting Immigration
American Culture
100
Conditions that drive people from their homeland
What is a push factor
100
Regulations that were set up in cities for safer construction and living conditions
What is building codes
100
This symbolized hope and freedom
What is the statue of liberty
100
Jane Addams
What is the founder of Hull House
100
Popularized by Scott Joplin
What is ragtime
200
Conditions that attract people to a new area
What is a pull factor
200
Moving from farms to cities
What is urbanization
200
2,000 immigrants [would be in this place]
What is the amount of immigrants that would travel aboard one steamship
200
those who disliked immigrants
What is nativists
200
low-priced paperback books
What is dime novels
300
Two types of persecution that immigrants faced in their homelands
What is religious and political persecution
300
Helped to accommodate for little available living and working space in big cities
What is tenements, skyscrapers, etc.
300
8-14 days
What is the amount of time that the journey to America took
300
this was the first law that prohibited a group of people from immigrating to the U.S.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
300
speech and habits of a particular region
What is local color
400
Bill of Rights
What is the freedoms immigrants received in America
400
This helped to clear up the problem of city pollution
What is new sewer systems
400
the amount of people who came to both Ellis Island and Angel Island
What is 75% and 25%
400
The movement within American Protestantism in the late 1800's that attempted to apply biblical teachings to society's problems
What is social gospel
400
news reporting, often biased or untrue
What is yellow journalism
500
Reasons immigrants sought the spacious lands of America
What is scare land and farm jobs
500
Holding on to old traditions while adapting to new ones
What is acculturation
500
where immigrants stayed aboard steamships
What is steerage
500
traveling adult education program in the late 1800's
What is the Chautauqua Society
500
writer/artist who shows life as it really is
What is realists