Unit 4: Age of Immigration Review

Which invention made it easier for Americans to stay out longer, and companies/factories to have longer working hours?

• Transcontinental railroad

• Bessemer-processed steel

• Electric lightbulbs

• Commuter trains

Immigrants from Europe came to the US through ​ (a)   off the coast of ​ (b)   , while immigrants from Asia came through ​ (c)   in California.

• Ellis Island
• New York
• Angel Island
• Boston
• Long Island
• Florida

This word refers to cities growing as a larger portion of the population moves into cities

(a)  

Sort these reasons for immigration into "push" and "pull" factors

Groups:

(a) Push

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(b) Pull

• Escaping violence from wars and revolutions

• People fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland

• Poverty and a lack of jobs

• Rejoining family members that already lived in the US

• Religious minorities fleeing persecution

• The ability to own land in the west

• First amendment freedoms

• Job opportunities in cities

Which word refers to prejudice against foreigners, and a desire to keep immigrants out?

• Nativism

• Pluralism

• Americanization

• Assimilation

Match the laws with the correct impact on citizenship/immigration

• Defined citizens as "free white persons"

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Effectively banned women from Asia

• Naturalization Law of 1790

• Established birthright citizenship

• 14th Amendment

• Banned all Chinese immigration to the US

• Page Law of 1875

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) "Old Immigrants"

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(b) "New Immigrants"

• Often Protestants

• Often spoke English as a first language

• Came from Southern Europe (Italy, Greece)

• Came to the US before the Civil War

• Came from Asia (China, Japan)

• Catholic Immigrants

• Jewish Immigrants

• Came from Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, Ukraine)

• Came to the US after the Civil War

• Mostly spoke languages other than English

• Came from Western Europe

___________ is the process by which a foreign-born person becomes a citizen of a new country

• Immigration

• Assimilation

• Americanization

• Naturalization