| A | B |
|---|
| Immigrant | a person who enters into a new country |
| Steerage | This is the ships lowest level. also the cheapest tickets. THis is where the ships engines steering mechanism are. Majority of immigrants traveled to America in Steer, it was cramped and overcrowded |
| Anarchist | rebels against government or power |
| Tenements | poorly built, run down, over crowded apartment buildings |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | In 1882 congress passed a law banning Chinese from immigrating to the U.S. for 10 years |
| Nativist | anti-immigrant Amercans-they felt threantened by different languages, cultures, and relgions of immigrants |
| Illiterate | person who cant read or write |
| Assimilate | process by which a person "blends" into their new culture |
| Ellis Island | Immigration processing station in New York |
| Angel Island | immigration processing station in San Francisco California |
| Unskilled | lacking any specific job skill |
| Piece Work | earning wages based on the number of items you can produce.Immigrants worked long days for low pay in these types of jobs |
| Benevolent Societies | agencies developed to help immigrants in time of need, such as sickness, unemployment or death |
| Emmigrant | a person who leaves, (exits) one country for another |
| Exile | a person who is forced to leave ones country |
| Democratic | believe in social equality and rule by majority |
