EOC Flashcards - Immigration/Westward Expansion

Movement of the people from the countryside(rural) to the cities(urban)

One room apartments that lacked daylight and adequate plumbing

-Corrupt political organizations

-Helped immigrants settle into the US

-Stole from city gov'ts

• Political Machines

• Tenements

• Push Factors

• Pull Factors

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Push Factors

• Oppression

• Poverty

• Railroads

• Wars

• Ethnic Persecution

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Pull Factors

• American Freedom

• Economic Opportunities

• Wars

• Cultural Ties

• Poverty

-Northern Europeans

-Religion

- Protestants

• Old Immigrants

• New Immigrants

-Southern & Eastern Europeans

-Catholic

-Jewish

-Uneducated

-Spoke no English

• Old Immigrants

• New Immigrants

Drove cattle on long drives across open range

Policy to push immigrants to speak, act, and behave like Americans

Gold found in California & Alaska mid and late 1800s