Immigration Vocabulary Quiz

a person who leaves their country

• Emigrant

• Immigrant

• Old immigrant

• Nativist

a person who settles in a new country

• Immigrant

• Emigrant

• Old immigrant

• Nativist

the cheapest deck or place on a ship

• Steerage

• Slum

• Tenement

• Homeland

a factor that pushes people out of their native lands and pulls them toward a new place

• Push-pull factor

• Racial discrimination

• Assimilation

• Urbanization

a severe food shortage

• Famine

• Slum

• Push-pull factor

• Melting Pot

a negative opinion that is not based on facts

• Prejudice

• Social Gospel

• Racial Discrimination

• Push-pull factor

a native-born American who wanted to eliminate foreign influence

• Nativist

• Immigrant

• Old immigrant

• Emigrant

growth of cities resulting from industrialization

• Urbanization

• Famine

• Homeland

• Steerage

an apartment building that is usually run-down and overcrowded

• Tenement

• Slum

• Homeland

• Steerage

a neighborhood with overcrowded and dangerous housing

• Slum

• Ellis Island

• Tenement

• Steerage