Immigration and Urbanization Level 1

What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Did NOT want religious freedom
• Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)
• Wanted LESS diversity
• Wanted to live more simply

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

• It was illegal to live anywhere else
• They didn't want to be in the US
• It made their adjustment to their new life easier
• No other housing was avaliable

What challenges did immigrants face in the US?

• They caught diseases
• Had trouble learning the language/faced prejudice
• Uncomfortable in the large homes in the US
• Difficult to study for the citizenship test

Immigrants from Europe came here first.  They were taken by ferry boat here.

• Angel Island
• Ellis Island

Immigrants were checked for dangerous diseases because...

• They didn't want them to bring them into the US
• They were discriminating against immigrants
• They had prejudice and did it just to be mean

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

What was the first Immigration Law in the United States?

• Italian Exclusion Act of 1882
• Irish Exclusion Act of 1882
• Japanese Exclusion Act of 1882
• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Give examples of immigrant "push" factors.

• Promise of a better life
• War or religious persecution
• Religious Freedom
• Religious Freedom

Why was America called the Melting Pot ?

• It represents all the different foods in America
• It represents the gov. requiring everyone to become the same
• It represents all  people coexisting & living as 1 nation.
• It represents everyone getting jobs at restaurants