Immigration to Kansas

Factors that make a person want to leave their country

• Push

• Pull

Factors that attract immigrants to come and live in one country over another.

• Push

• Pull

Between 1860 and 1890 the Kansas population grew by ...

• Less than than 1,000

• Exactly 100,000

• More than One Million

• More than One Billion

Between 1860 and 1890 the largest immigrant groups were

• Germans

• English

• Vietnamese

• Swedes

Reasons someone may feel pushed out of their homeland include

• there are political changes at home

• they want to follow family members

• a lack of good jobs at home

• it was is too crowded at home

Reasons that pull immigrants to a new country include

• Fear of bears

• Better jobs

• More Freedoms

• Following other family members that immigrated earlier.

Having to pay to move yourself and your things is a(n):

• Economic Cost

• Social Cost

Having to learn a new language is a(n):

• Economic Cost

• Social Cost

Having to leave behind your friends and family is a(n):

• Economic Cost

• Social Cost

Most Americans are part of the immigrant experience

• True

• False