Vocab 1
A city with a harbor where ships can load and unload.
Port
A pot in which metals are melted.
Crucible
If Ellis Island was the "Island of Tears", then what was the "Island of Fears"?
Bellis Island
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What country gave the U.S. the Statue of Liberty?
France
Liberty Island and Ellis Island are located in what harbor.
New York Harbor.
Treating people in a different way because of prejudice.
Discrimination
The home of the Statue of Liberty
(Hint: It's an island)
Liberty island
How long was the transatlantic voyage for old immigrants.
30-90 days.
What event caused immigration to slow in the 1860s?
The Civil War
Name the poem Emma Lazarus wrote about the Statue of Liberty.
The New Colussus
Someone with strong feelings against immigrants; someone who wants laws banning immigration.
Nativist
The first stop for many immigrants coming to america.
Ellis Island
Name three places NEW Immigrants came from.
Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, Asia, Canada, Mexico.
Where did old immigrants come from?
Northern & Western Europe.
This term is meant to describe the U.S. as a blended country.
Melting pot.
An apartment building, often overcrowded and poorly kept, usually in a city slum.
Tenement
To treat people harshly or cruelly and deny their rights.
To persecute
Name two "push" factors that made immigrants want to leave their country of origin.
Not enough farmland, Political Oppression, Religious Persecution.
Name two "pull" factors that brought immigrants to the U.S.
Jobs, Freedoms, No taxes, and Farmland
Describe how first generation Americans tried to make a life in the U. S.
Held on to their own customs, religions, and languages.
Leaving one country to live in another.
Emigration
Coming to live permanently in foreign country
Immigration
Other than country of origin, name one difference between Old and New immigrants.
New - Factory Jobs and Came for money, sometimes left.
Old - Farming jobs and Places to live.
Name one way Americans helped immigrants adjust to the new world.
Classes in English, Pamphlets about how the American government worked.
How did second generation immigrants differ from their parents?
They quickly became fluent in English, wanted to behave like American children, and did not like their parents' old customs.