| A | B |
|---|
| 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. |
| Ellis Island | Most European Immigrants came through here |
| Acculturation | what we expect from immigrants today: to keep their old culture but include parts of American culture |
| 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 |
| tenements | run down apartments of the northern cities |
| factories or farms | the two places most immigrants went in the 1800's |
