IMMIGRATION EXAM REVIEW

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The subject of this passage is...

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Urbanization and its effects

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Urbanizaiton

Reading Comp.

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Which of the following would be a good title for the column on the right? Options: Old Immigrants, Reasons for Old Immigration, Push Factors, Characteristics of New Immigrants

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Characteristics of New Immigrants

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Old vs New

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The process of settlement by many people into big cities is known as

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Urbanization

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Urbanizaiton

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European Immigrants were examined, registered, and welcomed into the country at this "processing point" in New York Harbor

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Ellis Island

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Ellis Island

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The process by which immigrants adopt American culture and traditions to blend in with average Americans is called

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Assimilation

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Assimilation

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A small, cramped apartment building in New York City where immigrants lived

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tenement

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Tenements

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Immigrants settled in ----------- because they wanted to be near people that shared their culture

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ethnic neighborhoods / enclaves

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Ethnic neighborhoods

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Nativists are people who...

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Resent the presence of immigrants in their country

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Nativism

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One reason nativists didn't like immigrants was that...

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Immigrants might take their jobs

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Nativism

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This nativist law specifically barred Chinese people from immigrating to the U.S., and was in place for more than 60 years.

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The Chinese Exclusion Act

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Nativism