Immigrant Vocab

people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country

• Immigrants

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Sweatshops

• Tenements

1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers 

• Immigrants

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Sweatshops

• Tenements

a factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions.

• Immigrants

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Sweatshops

• Tenements

Poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived

• Immigrants

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Sweatshops

• Tenements

are places where people live, work, and play

• Neighborhoods

• mass transit

• suburbs

• settlement houses

Transportation system designed to move large numbers of people

• Neighborhoods

• mass transit

• suburbs

• settlement houses

residential areas surrounding a city

• Neighborhoods

• mass transit

• suburbs

• settlement houses

institutions that provided educational and social services to poor people

• Neighborhoods

• mass transit

• suburbs

• settlement houses

to speak in favor of

• Neighborhoods

• mass transit

• Advocate

• Factor

something that contributes to a result

• Neighborhoods

• mass transit

• Advocate

• Factor