Immigration Vocab Quiz

Angel Island

• immigrants who had come to the US before the 1880s from Britain, Germany, Ireland, and Scandinavia, or Northern Europe

• The immigration station on the west coast where Asian immigrants, mostly Chinese gained admission to the U.S. at San Francisco Bay. Between 1910 and 1940 Chinese immigrants entered through Angel Island. Questioning and conditions at Angel Island were much harsher than Ellis Island in New York.

• A shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions

• An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.

Chinese Exclusion Act

• Settlement home designed as a welfare agency for needy families. It provided social and educational opportunities for working class people in the neighborhood as well as improving some of the conditions caused by poverty.

• immigrants who had come to the US before the 1880s from Britain, Germany, Ireland, and Scandinavia, or Northern Europe

• Factors that induce people to move to a new location. Such as free land, jobs, etc.

• (1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.

Ellis Island

• Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

• The immigration station on the west coast where Asian immigrants, mostly Chinese gained admission to the U.S. at San Francisco Bay. Between 1910 and 1940 Chinese immigrants entered through Angel Island. Questioning and conditions at Angel Island were much harsher than Ellis Island in New York.

• Institutions that provided educational and social services to poor people

• Poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived

Hull House

• Institutions that provided educational and social services to poor people

• Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

• Settlement home designed as a welfare agency for needy families. It provided social and educational opportunities for working class people in the neighborhood as well as improving some of the conditions caused by poverty.

• Poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived

Jacob Riis

• (1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.

• A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800's. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890.

• 1860-1935. Founder of Settlement House Movement. First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 as president of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

• immigrants who had come to the US before the 1880s from Britain, Germany, Ireland, and Scandinavia, or Northern Europe

Jane Addams

• A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800's. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890.

• immigrants who had come to the US after the 1880s from southern and eastern Europe

• An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.

• 1860-1935. Founder of Settlement House Movement. First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 as president of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

New Immigrants

• immigrants who had come to the US after the 1880s from southern and eastern Europe

• immigrants who had come to the US before the 1880s from Britain, Germany, Ireland, and Scandinavia, or Northern Europe

• Factors that induce people to move to a new location. Such as free land, jobs, etc.

• A shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions

Old Immigrants

• (1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.

• immigrants who had come to the US before the 1880s from Britain, Germany, Ireland, and Scandinavia, or Northern Europe

• Institutions that provided educational and social services to poor people

• immigrants who had come to the US after the 1880s from southern and eastern Europe

pull factors

• Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

• Factors that induce people to move to a new location. Such as free land, jobs, etc.

• Incentives for potential migrants to leave a place, such as a harsh climate, economic recession, or political turmoil.

• Institutions that provided educational and social services to poor people

Push factors

• Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

• A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800's. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890.

• Incentives for potential migrants to leave a place, such as a harsh climate, economic recession, or political turmoil.

• A shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions