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| melting pot | the mixing of cultures, ideas, and peoples that has changed the American nation. The United States, with its history of immigration, has often been called a melting pot. |
| nativism | a policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones |
| Angel Island | Inspection station for immigrants arriving on the West Coast |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | (1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate. |
| Ellis Island | an island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States |
| Gentleman's Agreement | (1907) agreement in which the Japanese promised not to issue passports to laborers seeking to come to the US, in return for no Japanese segregation in the US. |
| people came to America | religious freedom, better life, financial opportunity, War, political persecution |
| New Immigration | The second major wave of immigration to the U.S.; betwen 1865-1910, 25 million new immigrants arrived. Unlike earlier immigration, which had come primarily from Western and Northern Europe, the New Immigrants came mostly from Southern and Eastern Europe, fleeing persecution and poverty. Language barriers and cultural differences produced mistrust by Americans. |
| tenements | Urban apartment buildings that served as housing for poor factory workers. Often poorly constructed and overcrowded |
| American Protective Association | A Nativist group of the 1890s which opposed all immigration to the U.S. |
