Vocabulary
what is a factor that attracts people to a new country
pull factor
What did the Statue of Liberty symbolize for European immigrants?
hope and freedom
What role did class play in urban neighborhoods?
divided based on wealth
what are examples of pull factors?
-jobs
-land
-opportunity
on a boat the level of crowded airless rooms below deck where disease often spread rapidly.
steerage
a condition that drives people away from their homeland is known as....
a push factor
Immigrants from mostly Western Europe entered here
Ellis Island
How did middle class and wealthy people differ from lower-class people? (hint: what did they have more time for?)
leisure activities
what are examples of push factors?
-religious persecution
-few jobs
-land scarcity
the movement of population from farms to urban areas, or cities, is called
urbanization
what word means the process of holding on to old traditions while adapting to a new culture?
acculturation
Immigrants from mostly Asia and Eastern Europe entered here
Angel Island
What are some ways that building codes improved the safety of urban tenements?
-set up fire escapes
-created fire & police departments
speaking a blend of English and another language would be considered
acculturation
Mostly came from southern and eastern Europe: Italy, Poland, and Russia.
Asian countries: China and Japan.
New immigrants
a person who enters another country in order to settle there
an immigrant
How did the US respond to anti-Chinese sentiment?
barred many Chinese immigrants from entering the country
How did zoning laws help to reduce the danger from pollution?
kept factories outside of residential areas
standards for construction or safety
building codes
From northern & western Europe: England, Ireland, Germany
"Old immigrants"
small apartment in a city slum building
tenement
People who wanted to limit immigration and preserve the country from native-born, White Protestants and pushed for restrictive immigration laws were known as...
Nativists
What were settlement houses?
community centers that offered services to the poor
Protestant ministers called on their well-to-do members to help the poor, part of the movement known as
The Social Gospel
Patricia
Mrs. Pence's middle name