A group’s shared beliefs, values, and ways of life.

A distinct group that lives or works together within a larger community.

A large building with many apartments for rent that is usually in a poorer part of a city.

Most immigrants moved to cities to work in challenging jobs such as ones in mills, factories, and assembly plants.

Enclave neighborhoods helped immigrants adjust to America.

By 1900, ______ of the population of New York lived in tenement housing.

Which of the following was a problem in tenement buildings?

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Immigrants were often excluded from jobs, housing, and educational opportunities.

Nativism is the belief that immigrants are inferior to established Americans.

Nativists blamed immigrants for many problems, such as overcrowding, poverty, crime and violence, and unemployment.

Immigrants were believed to be unable to _______ and become truly American.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of _____ prohibited most immigration from China.

The Immigration Act of 1917 required immigrants to be able to _____ and ______.

The Emergency Quota Act of 1921placed limits on immigration from each country.

The Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924 created ____ on immigration.

Chinese immigration to America skyrocketed in the ______.

Chinese immigrants worked on the transcontinental railroad.

The largest Chinatowns in the U.S. were in—

Exclusion is the act of keeping someone or something out.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 stopped new Chinese laborers from entering the United States for _____ years.