Immigration

Poem written on the base of the Statue of Liberty that welcomes all immigrants to the US

• push factor

• Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus"

• tenement

Incentives for potential migrants to leave a place (religious persecution, war, poor conditions, etc.

• push factors

• pull factors

A factor that draws or attracts people to another location (Jobs, Family, Education, etc.)

• push factor

• pull factor

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

• Acculturation

• Urbanization

• Tenement

• Factory

Movement of population to cities

• urbanization

• acculturation

• assimilation

Migration to a new location. People leaving their home country to relocate and start a new life.

• Ellis Island

• Tenement

• Immigration

Push or pull factor: Reuniting with your family in America

• push factor

• pull factor

Push or pull factor: Better jobs and better standard of living-

• push factor

• pull factor

Push or pull factor: Drought, flooding and poverty in my country made me leave and go to America.

• push factor

• pull factor

Where did new immigrants come from?

• Northern/Central Europe

  (Holland, Germany, France

• Southern/Central Europe and Asia

  (Hungary, Russia, Poland, Italy,