STAAR SGI Day 1

Hotspot

Which detail explains why immigrants came to America?

Select THREE correct answers

Reorder

Reorder the following:

• The availability of jobs and new resources led to industrialization in the US

• Immigrants were pulled to the US by the opportunity to work in factories

• An increase in immigrants caused the construction of tenement housing

• Settlement houses were opened in urban areas as a way to assimilate immigrants into American culture.

• The government opened stations to process immigrants before they were allowed to enter the US

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Hotspot

Which characteristics best describe the social issues affecting Irish & Chinese immigrants?

Select the correct answer in each row.

Match

Match the term to its definition:

• The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.

• Reasons causing someone to leave a country.

• Reasons causing someone to come to a country.

• The process of adopting and fitting in with the existing local culture.

• Hostility towards foreigners in the name of preserving the existing local culture.

Immigration

Push Factor

Pull Factor

Assimilation

Nativism

• Immigration

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor

• Assimilation

• Nativism