SS Immigration Vocabulary

Limits placed on the number of immigrants allowed into the United States

• push factors

• nativism

• quotas

• ethnic group

Political party that was nativist and anti-immigration

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Know-Nothings

• anti-Semitism

• alien

An immigrant living in a country in which he or she is not a citizen

• tenement

• pull factor

• ethnic group

• alien

Immigrants often had to live in these buildings, in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety

• tenements

• quotas

• pull factors

• ethnic groups

The belief that those born in a country are superior to immigrants

• quotas

• anti-Semitism

• nativism

• pull factors

This is the ONLY immigration law to block people from immigrating to the United States based on RACE.

• anti-Semitism

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Know-Nothings

• aliens

Factors that make people want to leave their home country (negatives)

• Pull factors

• Push factors

• quotas

• tenements

Factors that make people want to come to the United States (positives)

• Pull factors

• Push factors

• Know-Nothings

• tenements

Minority that speaks a different language or has different customs than the majority of people in a country

• nativism

• tenements

• quotas

• ethnic groups

Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• anti-Semitism

• pull factors

• Know-Nothings