Immigration

What is a "push factor" in relation to immigration?

• Reasons that immigrants were attracted to coming to the U.S.

• Nativists wanted to push out immigrants living in the U.S.

• Reasons that immigrants left their homelands

• Immigrants "pushed" the economy forward by joining the workforce

What is a "pull factor" in relation to immigration?

• The modes of transportation that immigrants used to come to the U.S.

• The laws that stated immigrants had to be pulled into points of entry

• A reason that immigrants would want to leave their homelands.

• A reason that immigrants would want to come to the U.S.

What is nativism?

• When immigrants favor their home country

• Extreme dislike for people from other countries

• Having a welcoming attitude towards immigrants.

• Including immigrants in the U.S. political process

How was the Chinese Exclusion Act a form of nativist law?

• The law banned all Chinese immigration

• The law made it easier for Chinese-Americans to vote

• The law secured an important treaty with China

• The law made it easier for Chinese to immigrate

How did immigration impact the U.S.?

• By diversifying American culture and providing a large workforce

• By slowing down the process of industrialization

• By causing America to isolate itself from the world

• By increasing American involvement in European affairs

What was Ellis Island?

• The major point of entry for Asian Immigrants

• A prison designed to hold immigrants

• A place where immigrants built new homes to settle down

• The major point of entry for European immigrants.

What major demographic shift did immigration to the U.S. reflect in the late 1800s?

• More immigrants came from southern Europe than northern Europe

• There was a dramatic rise in African immigrants.

• More immigrants came from Asia than any other area.

• More immigrants came from northern Europe than southern Europe

How does current immigration demographics compare to the Industrial Era?

• Most immigrants come from the Americas or Asia now, not Europe

• European immigrants still make up the majority of immigrants

• Most immigrants come from Africa now instead of Europe

• Immigration to the U.S. no longer occurs at high levels