3.1 Vocab: Immigration and Urbanization

Community centers in slum neighborhoods that provided assistance to people in the area, especially immigrants.

• Tenements

• Angel Island

• Settlement Houses

• Urbanization

A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions

• Ghetto

• Political Machine

• Tenements

• Emmigration

Multi-family urban dwellings for immigrants. often poorly built and overcrowded.

• Immigration

• Settlement Houses

• Ghetto

• Tenements

Immigration is the migration to a country of which one is not native.

• True

• False

Reasons immigrants came to the U.S.-- to work in factories, to own land, to have a voice in government, economic opportunity

• Push Factors

• Pull Factors

Reasons millions of immigrants left their homeland to come to the US: poverty, starvation, governments run by dictators, religious persecution

• Push Factors

• Pull Factors

What is the melting pot theory of assimilation?

• A mixture of people of different cultures and races who blended together by abandoning their native languages and customs

• Many different cultures living together but they keep many of their own traditions and customs

Fear or resentment of immigrants and those born outside the U.S.

• urbanization

• nativism

• patronage

• Americanization

What is the salad bowl theory of assimilation?

• A mixture of people of different cultures and races who blended together by abandoning their native languages and customs

• Many different cultures living together but they keep many of their own traditions and customs

What major problems were caused by urbanization?

• Housing

• Transportation

• Water

• Sanitation

• Crime