Reform & Immigrants

Immigration push factors are…

• reasons people come to a new place

• reasons people leave their homelands

• reasons people begin working

• reasons people stop working

Immigration pull factors are…

• reasons people come to a new place

• reasons people leave their homelands

• reasons people begin working

• reasons people stop working

Give an example of immigrant "push" factors.

• Promise of a better life

• War or religious persecution

• Religious Freedom

• jobs

Where did  many immigrants in the East work?

• Fisherman
• Ranches
• Farms
• Factories

How did immigrants decide to settle where they did?

• They settled in warmer climates
• They settled near water
• They settled by people of similar ethnic backgrounds
• They settled where immigrant officials sent them

Give example of immigrant pull factors?

• Overpopulation

• Political Persecution

• Abundance of Land & job opportunities

• War

The belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers is called:

• Patriotism
• Americanization
• Nativism
• Racism

The Second Great Awakening was referring to what?

• revival of strong religious feelings
• when your mom comes in your room the second time
• return to a king
• return to law of the land

Abolitionists wanted to end what civil institution

• Slavery
• Womens Voting
• Care for the Disabled 
• Economic Reformations

The movement to grant woman the legal right vote was called--

• Prohibition 
• Woman Sufferage
• The Temperance Movement
• Jim Crow Law