New Immigrants Vocabulary

to leave one's homeland to live somewhere else

• pull factor

• push factor

• emigrate

a negative condition in one's homeland that causes them to want to leave

• pull factor

• push factor

• steerage

a positive condition in another land that draws someone to settle there

• push factor

• pull factor

• recruit

people who arrived in the US in large numbers prior to the Civil War from places in northern and western Europe like England, Ireland, and Germany

• ethnic group

• new immigrants

• old immigrants

people who arrived in the US in large numbers from the 1880's to the 1920's, mostly from Eastern and Southern Europe

• old immigrants

• new immigrants

• push factor

to hire people for jobs

• assimilate

• emigrate

• recruit

to become part of a larger culture

• recruit

• assimilate

• emigrate

people who share a common culture or heritage

• recruit

• ethnic group

• old immigrant

inexpensive quarters for passengers below the deck of a ship

• emigrate

• steerage

• nativist

a person who has anti-immigrant feelings, one who wants to restrict immigration

• nativist

• recruit

• anti-immigrant