| A | B |
|---|
| "push" factor | a reason or force that causes people to leave their native land |
| "pull" factor | a reason that causes people to choose to move to a new place |
| Know-Nothing Party | politcal party in the U.S. during the 1850s that was against recent immigrants and Roman Catholics |
| emigrant | person who leaves a country |
| immigrant | person who settles in a new country |
| setting up aid societies | how immigrant groups helped new immigrants of their own nationaligy |
| famine | severe foood shortage leading to starvation; reason Irish came to America |
| prejudice | a negative opinion that is not based on facts |
| nativist | native-born American who wanted to eliminate foreign influence |
| Southern and Northern members of the party couldn't agree on slavery | reason Know Nothing Party dissolved |
| similar climate and terrain as their country | reason Scandinavian immigrants moved to areas such as Wisconsin and Minnesota |
| be born in America; naturalization | 2 ways to become a citizen of the U.S. |
| poverty | reason Scandinavians immigrated to the U.S. |
| ban Catholics and foreign-born people from holding political offices | goal of the Know Nothing Party |
| mine gold | main reason Chinese emigrated to U.S. |
| cities where they initially arrived from Ireland | main places that the Irish lived in due to lack of money for traveling |
| land shortages | reason English emigrated to America |
| religious freedom | main reason Jewish Germans came to America |
| Free African Americans | group that competed with the Irish for low paying jobs in America |
| Oath of Allegiance | Oath someone has to take in order to become a citizen of the U.S. |
| $680 | cost to file an application to become a U.S. citizen |
| fingerprints | something used in background check |
| 5 years | amount of time one must live in America legally before they can become a citizen |
| Reading, writing, speaking | 3 areas of English that are tested when someone applies to become a U.S. citizen |
| U.S. history and government | two areas tests in Civics in order to become a citizen |
