Core Knowledge 6 - Immigration Vocab

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A statue larger than life:

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colossus

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Coming to live permanently in a new country:

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immigration

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Apartment building, often overcrowded and in need of repairs, usually in a city slum:

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tenement

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Related to someone from the past:

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descendant

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To allow someone from another country to become a citizen:

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naturalize

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Leaving one country to settle in another:

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emigration

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Treated cruelly or unfairly:

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persecuted

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Unfair treatment of a person or group due to beliefs about that group.

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discrimination

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A government where citizens elect rulers; a republic.

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representative government

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Preference for people from a specific country over immigrants.

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nativism