| A | B |
|---|
| Pull Factor | A reason to go to a country |
| Push Factor | A reason to leave a country |
| Statue of Liberty | A symbol of Freedom in New York |
| Ellis Island | Where immigrants were checked before entering the U.S. (east coast) |
| Golden Door | A symbol for oportunity |
| language | a major barrier for immigrants |
| ethnic group | a group of people who share a common culture |
| culture | the language, customs, beliefs, and values of a group of people |
| Angel Island | A U.S. immigration checkpoint on the west coast |
| Hardships of the boat over | disease, overcrowding, unsanitary conditions |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | Congress passed this law barring Chinese from entering the U.S. for 10 years |
| Veto | a President's power to destroy a law that Congress passes |
| Old Immigrants | immigrants from Northern and Western Europe |
| New Immigrants | Immigrants from Southern/Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America |
| Assimilation | Giving up your culture and adopting the culture of the country you're in |
| Salvation Army | A charity group who helped immigrants |
| New Colossus | "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" |
| Pogroms | A Russian program to exterminate Jews |
| 1866-1915 | The period of time when 25 million immigrants came to the U.S. |
| Pathfinder History | The most important thing on Earth since Oxygen. |
| Yellow Journalism | The printing of gossip, scandal, and crime stories to sell papers |
| realists | Writers who showed the world like it really was |
| Jane Addams | Created the Hull House in Chicago |
| Settlement House | Community centers that helped immigrants |
| emigrant | Somebody leaving a country |
| immigrant | Somebody coming to a new country |
| alien | Somebody who is in a country illegally |
| naturalization | Process of becoming a U.S. citizen |
| Children | assimilated better than the adults |
| racial persecution | To be discriminated against based on race |
| religious persecution | To be discriminated against based on religion |
| William Randolph Hearst | wrote using Yellow Journalism |
| Urban area | City areas with lots of jobs |
| rural areas | country area that lacked jobs of cities |
| Homestead Act | Giving away 160 Acres for living 5 years |
| Jobs | Many immigrants came to America in search of these |
| Ragtime | A swinging type of music of the time |
| Adventure | One reason to come to America |
| Ethnic Neighborhoods | Immigrants would settle here |
| Emma Lazarus | Author of The New Colossus |
