12. FAC Immigration

something that causes you to want to live in a new place: something that attracts you to this new place

• pull factor

• push factor

• oppression

• persecution

the things that make you so miserable about where you are currently living, that you become willing to move somewhere else

• pull factors

• push factors

• opportunities

• persecutions

a cheaply made, overcrowded, rundown apartment building

• suburb

• tenement

• ghetto

• migration

an area outside of a city in which single family houses are placed on yards with grass and trees

• urban

• suburb

• rural

• tenement

a person who moves permanently to a foreign country

• immigrant

• expatriot

• migrant

• alien

a very poor area of a city in which people of the same race or religion live, or a part of a society or group that is in some way set apart

• suburb

• ghetto

• renaissance

• nativist

to become a part, or to make someone become a part, of a group, country, society, etc.

• assimilate

• activate

• motivate

• conjugate

the belief that various immigrant groups will abandon their individual cultures and eventually fully assimilate into the predominant society

• Melting Pot Theory

• Salad Bowl Theory

• Social Darwinism Theory

• Evolution Theory

the movement of 10's of thousands of African Americans from the rural south to urban centers in the northeast and midwest

• Great Awakening

• Great Migration

• Great Revolution

• Great Compromise

a section of New York City, in the Northeastern part of Manhattan which was the destination of many African Americans in the 1910s and 1920s when they left the south.

• Bronx

• Brooklyn

• Harlem

• Yonkers