Immigrating

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These were community centers that offered services to the poor like English classes, baby sitting and help finding jobs...

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Settlement House

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Apartment buildings located in the poor parts of a city that were 6 or 7 stories high and divided up into many small apartments with no windows, heat or indoor bathrooms.

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tenement

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Started by Jane Addams in 1889, this became the first Settlement House to help people in the slums in Chicago.

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Hull House

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Organized anti-Jewish riots the left thousands dead or injured in Russia.

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Pogrom

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Conditions that attract immigrants to a new land or area.

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Pull Factor

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The process of adopting to a new culture and making changes while holding on to older traditions.

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Acculturation

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Americans who were born here and tried to limit immigration and preserve the country for native-born, white Protestants.

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Nativist

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The cheapest ticket available, in an airless room below deck on a ship.

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Steerage

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Conditions that drive people from their homelands.

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Push Factor

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An 1882 law that banned Chinese laborers from entering the United States. In addition, if a Chinese person left the United States, they could not return.

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Chinese Exclusion Act