Immigration

Factors that force people to leave their home country are called....

• Pull factors

• Bad breaks

• Push factors

• Negative environment

Which of the following were push factors?

• Poverty/famine

• War

• freedom

• jobs

Positive conditions in another country that attract immigrants to go there are....

• Pull factors

• Attractive attributes

• Push factors

• Exciting opportunities

What is NOT an example of a pull factor?

• Freedom

• escaping violence

• job opportunities

• reuniting with family

Nearly all European immigrants from 1892-1954 were processed at

• Ellis Island

• Long Island

• Angel Island

• Fire Island

Process by which an immigrant becomes almost entirely part of the new

culture, especially later generations is called

• resisting

• assimilation

• blending

• acculturation

Continuing to speak the native language and eat native foods for longer periods of time when in a new country are examples of....

• acculturation

• stubbornness

• assimilation

• resistance

Angel Island received and processed immigrants from

• Asia

• Europe

• South and Central America

• Africa

How was the Chinese immigrant experience at Angel Island DIFFERENT from Europeans at Ellis Island?

(multiple answers)

• They had to answer questions that were more challenging.

• They experienced anxiety and uncertainty.

• In many cases they had to stay on the island for much longer.

• They had come to America for freedom and opportunity.

Limiting immigration in the past in the United States has been accomplished by....

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• offering job opportunities

• Quotas

• offering freedom and safety