A New wave of Immigrants

What does immigration mean?

• The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
• Protecting your country.
• To move illegally.
• Fighting for your country.

Immigrants came to the United States for______

• economic opportunity
• fair treatment
• escape from poverty and oppression
• all of these

The following factors lead to immigration:

• Push Factors Only
• Pull and Push Factors
• Push, Pull, and Shove Factors
• Pull Factors Only

Passed in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act did what?

• closed America to Chinese immigrants for the next ten years
• welcomed more Chinese immigrants to America to perform hard work
• allowed Chinese immigrants, but only under a very strict set of rules
• closed America to Chinese immigrants for three years then allowed a few at a time

A law banning new immigrants to the United States from China for ten years. This was the first time a nationality was banned from entering the country.

• Benevolent Society

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Hull House

• Settlement House

Which group of immigrants were banned from coming into the US because the Americans did not want to compete with them for jobs?

• Jewish

• Mexican

• Italian

• Chinese

Americans who opposed increased immigration to the US were called

• imperialists

• industrialists

• old immigrants

• nativists

Nativism is

• the idea that Native Americans should have more land
• the distrust of immigrants by Americans
• a fear of radical ideas
• hatred of all people by Native Americans

America was exactly what immigrants thought it would be. Great housing and jobs galore!

• True

• False

What symbol welcomed many immigrants when they came to New York harbor?

• Ellis Island

• The Twin Towers

• Statue of Liberty

• The Liberty Bell