New Immigrants vs Old Immigrants

Conditions that drive people from their native lands (homes) to go to another country.

• Pull Factors
• Push Factors

Conditions that attract people to move (go to live) in another country.

• Pull Factors
• Push Factors

Ship owners jammed up to 2,000 people in _______________, as the airless rooms below deck were called.

• census
• assimilation
• steerage
• pogroms

The new immigrants were from ____________.

• Northern and Western Europe
• Africa and Asia
• Southern and Eastern Europe
• Australia and Africa

The new immigrants _____________ accepted into the United States.

• were not
• were

Immigrants who entered the United States from Europe would mostly enter through ________________ in New York City, New York.

• Angel Island
• Ellis Island
• Liberty Island
• Long Island

Even before the Civil War, ________________ had wanted to limit immigration and preserve the country for native-born white Protestants.

• anarchists
• nativists
• census
• pogroms

The ________________ Exclusion Act in 1882 was  the first law to exclude a specific national group from immigrating to the United States.

• German
• Korean
• Chinese
• Japanese

What were the immigrants searching for when they came to America?

• Education for their children

• All the choices are correct

• Owning their own home

• Jobs

Most immigrants settled in the same area or neighborhoods as others from their home country.

• True

• False