Immigration

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Where did most "new" immigrants between 1880 and 1920 immigrant from?

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Southern and Eastern Europe

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How were the new immigrants treated when they arrived in America?

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Severely discriminated against

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What are the conditions that drive or attract people to leave their homeland and move to a new country?

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push/pull factors

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In 1892, the United States government opened Ellis Island to mainly

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process immigrants arriving in America and check for diseases

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Which group is against immigrants coming to America? Options: Realists, optimists, Anti-nativists, Nativists

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Nativists

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One major cause of discrimination toward the “new immigrants” who came to the United States after 1880 was the belief that they

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would take jobs away from Americans

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What was the main purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act?

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restrict immigration to America

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When immigrants came to America they often tried to assimilate to American culture which is

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trying to fit in and accepting American culture

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One push factor that made people immigrant from their homeland was

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famine

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The Immigration Act of 1924 was created to

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restrict European immigrants coming into America.