Immigration

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Factors that force people to leave their home country are called....

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Push factors

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Positive conditions in another country that attract immigrants to go there are....

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Pull factors

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What is NOT an example of a pull factor? Freedom, escaping violence, job opportunities, reuniting with family

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escaping violence

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Nearly all European immigrants from 1892-1954 were processed at

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Ellis Island

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Process by which an immigrant becomes almost entirely part of the new culture, especially later generations is called

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assimilation

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During the period from 1880 to 1910, why did the majority of immigrants to the United States settle in urban areas in the North?

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Rapid industrialization had created many job opportunities.

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Why did immigrants in late nineteenth century America establish their own separate neighborhoods, such as New York's Little Italy and San Francisco's Chinatown?

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They did so in order to continue practicing the traditions that they brought over from their home countries.

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Why did "Americans" discriminate against the Chinese?

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They did not assimilate quickly enough & looked different physically.

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Nativists believed ..

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Immigrants threatened the American way of life and some were believed to be criminals, White Protestants were superior to other immigrant groups, Immigrants stole jobs from Americans.

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Why did immigrants often live in neighborhoods with others from their homelands?

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It made their adjustment to their new life easier.