Immigration Vocabulary Review

A building in which several families rent rooms or apartments (often slums, laundry hanging, cramped)

• Slum

• Steerage

• Tenement

• Urban

Urban areas are:

• city centers with large population density

• Farm areas- open land with very low population density.

Reasons people felt pushed or forced or lured to come to America are called:

• Ellis Island

• Push/pull factors

• Sweatshops

• Nativism

An eye disease that could cause blindness is known as:

• Tuberculosis

• Trachoma

• Assimilation

An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background (ex. Little Italy, China town)

• Angel Island

• Steerage

• Ethnic Neighborhood

• Urbanization

The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another (becoming more Americanized)

• Ethnic Neighborhood

• Assimilation

• Urbanization

An infectious bacterial disease characterized by the growth of nodules (tubercles) in the tissues, especially the lungs.

• Kidney disease

• Trachoma

• Tuberculosis

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

• sweatshop

• steerage

• rural areas

• slum

Poor, crowded, and run-down urban neighborhoods

• urbanization

• tenement

• slum

• sweatshop

Americans who feared that immigrants would take jobs and impose their beliefs on society (wanted to ban immigration)

• Ethnic neighborhood

• Nativism

• Assimilation

• Push/pull factors