Immigration & Urban Life

People who arrived from northern and western Europe (Germany, Ireland, Great Britain, etc.) in the mid 1800s were known as...

• new immigrants

• nativists

• old immigrants

• young immigrants

An area below a ship's deck that offered immigrants the cheapest way to travel to the U.S.

• tenement

• 1st class

• sweatshop

• steerage

Workplaces, often in the clothing industry, with low pay, long hours, and unsafe working conditions.

• tenements

• sweatshops

• suburbs

• settlement houses

Hungarian immigrant and publisher of the New York World newspaper...

• Joseph Pulitzer

• William McKinley

• William Randolph Hearst

• Jacob Riis

Poorly built, overcrowded, and unsanitary apartment buildings

• benevolent societies

• slums

• tenements

• ghettos

An 1882 law that banned immigration by Chinese people for a period of ten years

• The Chinese Inclusion Act

• The Tenement House Act

• The Immigration Enforcement Act

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

Negative factors that cause people to migrate away from their homeland.

• push factors

• pull factors

Positive factors about a specific place that attract people to migrate there

• push factors

• pull factors

People who believed that too many immigrants were being allowed into the country and worked to restrict it were known as...

• monopolists

• nativists

• strikebreakers

• philanthropists

People who permanently move from one country to another are called...

• migrants

• snow birds

• immigrants

• indigenous people