Vocabulary 1
being from a country, having rights of that country
What is citizen, or citizenship?
someone who comes to live in a new country
Who is an immigrant?
Lack of fairness or justice.
What is injustice?
Allowing people who are undocumented to stay in the country while they pursue citizenship.
What is Amnesty?
In the 1890s, the first generation of Japanese immigrants came to Oregon, hoping for ___________.
What was better jobs and pay?
grow and develop well, have success
What is to thrive?
welcoming, positive policies for immigrants
What is an inclusive policy?
Chinese neighborhood with Chinese homes, stores and restaurants.
What is a Chinatown?
During the depression in the 1930's the U.S. government did this to Mexican immigrants and Mexican-American citizens.
What was Mass Deportations or Repatriation?
The name of the town in the Columbia river gorge near Mount Hood where many Japanese people grew fruit and had successful businesses.
What is Hood River, OR?
a person who leaves their country due to war or persecution
Who is a refugee?
restrictive, keeping out, negative policies for immigrants
What are exclusive policies?
When a lot of people go to an area to look for more gold because someone has found gold there.
What is a gold rush?
After the Mexican-American War, Mexican citizens in who lived in states that were formally Mexico became:
What was US Citizens?
Being confined as a prisoner. Forced to live in a camp or a prison.
What is internment?
being in a country without legal papers
What is being undocumented?
to force someone out of the country
What is to deport?
An act of killing a lot of people at one time. Chinese immigrants were victims of these in the American west.
What were massacres?
The Mexican-American War took place between these years.
When was 1846-1848?
The attack by Imperial Japan that brought the United States into World War 2 in 1941.
What was the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
The legal process through which a non-citizen acquires citizenship in a country.
What is naturalization?
a policy to protect immigrants who arrived as children from deportation
What is Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or (DACA)?
Law passed by Congress that banned almost all Chinese immigrants to the U.S.
First federal law controlling who could/could not come to the US
People of Chinese ancestry could not get citizenship
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The Braceros Program was an ___________ policy for Mexican immigrants.
What was an inclusive policy?
During World War II the U.S. had __________________ policies towards Japanese Americans such as the Oregon Alien Land Law and Executive Order 9066.
What was exclusive?