Vocabulary to Know
Pull Factors & Stuff
Push Factors & Stuff
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DBQ
100
The entry point for most European immigrants on the East Coast in New York Harbor.
Ellis Island
100
Name one pull factor for immigration
Economic opportunity (jobs/higher wages)
Land
Freedom (Speech/religion, protest)
To be with family already in the U.S.
100
Name one push factor for immigration.
War
Famine
Lack of jobs/opportunities or education
Religious/political persecution
100
What is segregation?
The official practice of keeping people separated by race, gender, religion etc.
100
Which of the following is an economic Push Factor?
Unemployment
Lower wages
Crop failure
200
A cramped, noisy and unsanitary apartment where many immigrants lived and shared common areas with other families.
Tenement
200
Where is the following portion of an Emma Lazarus poem found? "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free..."
The base of the Statue of Liberty
200
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200
What is one social Pull Factor according to the chart?
Better living conditions
Better education and health services
Better facilities
300
A neighborhood during the immigration Era where people of similar culture, languages and religions lived.
Ghetto
300
What is one way in which immigrants can assimilate to the American way of life?
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Celebrate American holidays/traditions
Dress like and eat American foods
300
What push factor led many Irish people to come to America?
The Irish Potato Famine
300
What is it called when a person goes through the process to become an American citizen?
Naturalization
300
What did the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 state?
Only 3 percent of any immigrants can enter from a particular nation.
400
The term for a person who wanted to limit immigration because of fear that immigrants were too different, and would take jobs away.
Nativist
400
What is a synonym for liberty?
Freedom
400
What led many Russian Jews to come to America during the immigration Era in the late 1800's to 1900's?
Russian Pogroms
Persecution and harm by the Russian government
400
What is famine?
Extreme hunger that could lead to death.
400
What group of people might have spread the following pamphlet around and why?
Nativists because they wanted to limit immigration for fear that immigrants would take away jobs.
500
Organized violence by a government against a particular group of people. (Ex: Russian Jews)
Pogrom
500
By which entryway (station) did most Asian immigrants enter the United States?
Angel Island
California
San Francisco
500
What is the difference between a rural and urban setting?
Rural is countryside/farmland
Urban is city
500
What is Anti-Semitism?
Hatred of Jewish people
500
What hardships did immigrants face in America living in tenements like the one shown?
Cramped living spaces
2-3 families share toilets
Unsanitary and disease spread easily
Dangerous (fires/electrical problems/no fire escapes/uneven floors)