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| Push Factor | A condition that drives people to leave their homes for a new area. |
| Pull Factor | A condition that attracts people to a new area. |
| Assimilation | The process of becoming part of another culture. |
| Discrimination | A policy or attitude that denies equal rights to certain groups of people. |
| Quota System | A limit on immigration that allowed only a certain number of people to immigrate to the United States from each country. |
| Gentlemen's Agreement | An informal agreement with Japan in 1907 where Japan agreed to limit the number of workers coming to the United States in return for the wives of workers already here being allowed into the US. |
| Persecution | A program to drive away or subjugate (control or conquer) a group of people because of race, religion, or other factor |
| Nativism | Protecting the interests of natives of a country against immigrants |
| Quota | The number or percentage of people of a certain type or kind permitted to do something |
| Naturalization | To become the citizen of a country after birth |
