Immigration Vocabulary Review

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Americans who feared that immigrants would take jobs and impose their beliefs on society (wanted to ban immigration)

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Nativism

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Processing center in New York.

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Ellis Island

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Immigrant processing center in California (Asians)

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Angel Island

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The 3rd class portion of a ship with harsh conditions. Poor people traveled from Europe in this area of the ship.

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Steerage

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A term often used for an immigrant who arrived in the United States in the mid 1880s or earlier and who was typically from northern Europe

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old immigrants

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A term often used for an immigrant who arrived in the US in the late 1880s to the early 1900s and who was typically from southern and eastern Europe

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New immigrants

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A Push Factor is:

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Conditions that encourage someone to leave their country

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A Pull Factor is:

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Something that attracts/motivates people to move to a certain place

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The process of immigrants adapting to a new culture but still holding on to their own traditions (“salad bowl”)

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acculturation

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The process of immigrants blending and changing their culture into a new one ("melting pot").

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assimilation