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Immigration from Around the Globe
Italian Immigrants
Jewish Immigrants
Mexican Immigrants
Chinese Immigrants
100
People who flee their homes or countries because of war, persecution, or other causes.
What is a refugee?
100
Reason many Italians came to America.
What is poverty?
100
Crowded and usually run-down
What are tenement housing?
100
A push factor.
What is the Mexican civil war?
100
Many immigrants faced these two things.
What are prejudice and discrimination?
200
The process by which immigrants or other new comers acquire the attitudes, behaviors, and cultural patterns of the society around them.
What is assimilate?
200
Deck, deep in a ship reserved for the passengers who paid the lowest fares.
What is steerage?
200
The most densely populated neighborhood in New York City.
What is the Lower East Side?
200
Connected American and Mexican cities.
What is the railroad?
200
A tourist attraction in San Francisco.
What is Chinatown?
300
Italy, Greece, Russia, and Poland.
What is southern and eastern Europe?
300
It took two weeks to arrive here.
What is Ellis Island in New York Harbor?
300
"like thunder"
What is pogrom?
300
Caused many American employers to look to Mexico for new workers.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
1882 law passed by Congress.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
Rich in customs, crafts, languages, and faiths of people from around the globe.
What is multiculturalism?
400
"The Island of Tears"
What is Ellis Island?
400
Nervous leaders blamed Jews for his murder.
Who is Czar Alexander II?
400
Mexican neighborhood
What is a barrios?
400
arranged immigratants
What are "paper relatives"?
500
This many immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920.
What is 20 million?
500
Many Protestant nativists charged that Catholic immigrants were enemies of democracy because they owed their primary loyalty to this man.
Who is the Pope in Rome?
500
Location Jews left Europe from to head to America.
What is Hamburg, Germany?
500
Pathway out of the hard work of agriculture.
What is an education?
500
Started in 1921 and refined in 1924.
What is the quota system?