Section 1
What is a push factor?
Something that encourages people to leave a place behind.
The most common push factors are ______
Economic
________ is a strong pull factor in immigration.
Education.
About ____ percent of all workers in the United States are immigrants.
17%
What is brain drain?
The loss of well-educated people such as doctors or engineers to another country.
What is a pull factor?
Something that encourages people to move to a new place.
What is genocide?
An organized elimination of a national, political, racial, or ethnic group.
Another powerful pull factor is the desire to united ______ families.
Divided.
What do taxes help support?
What are remittances?
Immigrants sending money to their families via payments.
Where were the early immigrants primarily from in the first great wave of immigration?
These early immigrants came primarily from northern and western Europe.
What is the name of the group of political refugees John Deng James is apart of?
The Lost Boys of Sudan
List 2 pull factors that attract immigrants to the United States.
1. Feeling safe.
2. Education.
3. Getting good jobs.
What does diffusion mean?
The spreading and mixing of cultures.
What is a negative impact of emigration?
Families are separated.
Some emigrants never return to their homelands.
How many people moved to the United States between 1970 and 2005?
Between 1970 and 2005, more than 28 million people moved to the United States.
What do political push factors have in common?
They involve the way a government treats its people.
What is the "American Dream"?
Belief that people in the U.S. can create better lives for themselves and for their children, thanks to the economic opportunity and political freedom this nation enjoys.
Why was adjusting to a new country difficult for the "Lost Boys"? List at least 2 ways.
1. Homesick.
2. Hungry (they did not know how to shop for food at a supermarket or know how to cook).
3. Never used a phone.
What is a postive impact of emigration?
Money that emigrants send home can help care for aging parents or send children to school.
In the late 1800s, a second wave of immigrants started to arrive from eastern and southern Europe. Why did they come to the United States?
Many were refugees escaping war or persecution because of their religious beliefs.
What are some examples of environmental push factors?
Long-term drought.
Plant disease (Ireland in the 1840s)
Environmental changes from human activity (explosion from Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986)
Between 1965 and 1975, about how many Greeks came to the United States?
142,000
What are some holidays immigrants have introduced to American Life? List 3.
St. Patrick's Day, Chinese New Year, and Cinco de Mayo.
What was the top country with brain drain to the United States in 2015?