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THE WORK FORCE
NEW IMMIGRANTS
COMING TO AMERICA
GENERAL STUDIES
VOCABULARY
100
To refuse to work until certain demands, such a higher wages or better working conditions, are met
What is strike
100
Most were from southern and eastern Europe; they were Catholic, Jewish, or Greek Orthodox; few spoke english
What is the ways the new immigrants alike
100
City most new immigrants entered the U.S. through
What is New York
100
The right to live on land that had been promised to them
What is promises made to Native Americans were broken in the 1860?
100
A neighborhood where people of the same race, religion, or country live
What is a ghetto
200
a group of workers that tries to help its members
What is a labor union
200
They lived in cities and worked at low-paying jobs
What is most immigrants who came to the United States
200
Place they went to when they entered the U.S. after 1892
What is Ellis Island
200
The same legal rights as white Americans
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
200
An apartment house with poor safety, sanitation, and comfort conditions
What is a tenement?
300
a community set up and run by a company for its workers
What is a company town
300
places where immigrants could share with people from their own homeland
What is why ghettos where important to immigrants
300
the immigrants were checked for disease, and records of arrival
What is how they were processed?
300
A series of southern laws to limit the freedom of African Americans
What is black codes
300
A very tall building with many floors, elevators, and steel frame
What is a skyscraper?
400
Invention that help women get jobs as secretaries in offices
What is a Typewriter
400
Better life
What is what the new immigrants hope to find
400
Next 60 years
What is how long Ellis Island existed.
400
The time period after the Civil War when the United States began to rebuild the south
What is Reconstruction
400
Damage to the land, air, and water from harmful materials
What is pollution?
500
company owners could pay them less
What is why company owners hired women and children
500
There were more jobs in cities; chance to be around other people that spoke their languages
What is why most new immigrants settle in cities?
500
Name of the Statue Near Ellis Island
What is Liberty
500
All slaves in the Confederate states would be "forever free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
500
a camp that grows into a town almost overnight
What is a boom town