| A | B |
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| Assimilation | the process where a minority (smaller) group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture |
| Assisted Passage | when ones ticket is paid |
| Bicultural | relating to two different cultures in one country or region |
| Blacksmith | A person who forges objects made of metal, like horse shoes. |
| Camp oven | a way of cooking in the early times. |
| Chain Immigration | A migration process which depends on a small number of pioneers, who make the first moves to set up a new home in a new place. They send information back home, and this encourages further migration from friends and relatives from their homeland. |
| Chain Migration | when immigrants from a particular town follow others from that town to a particular area in their new country and/or when people immigrate to be united with family |
| Change | to make different, to alter |
| Cob Hut | Hut made of clay, better suited to the colder climate in the South. |
| Cooper | A person who makes or repairs casks, barrels, etc. |
| Culture Shock | A state of bewilderment and distress experienced by someone who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment. |
| Dalmation | Immigrants from Dalmatia looking for a new life |
| Deported | Ordered to leave a country |
| Discrimination | unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice _ prejudging someone based on their class, race etc. |
| Discrimination | To treat people with a different religion, race or culture differently (better or worse). |
| Emigration | To leave one country or region to settle in another. |
| Evidence | proof |
| Gum-digger | gathering Kauri gum |
| Great Britain | Island nation made up of England, Scotland and Wales |
| Immigrants | people who move into a country to settle there |
| Immigrate | to move into a new country to settle there permanently |
| Immigration | To enter and settle into another country or region. |
| Migration | To move from one place to another. |
| Manuka | a shrub or small tree native to New Zealand, also used for tea and honey |
| Overcrowding | too many people |
| Panning | Tin dish is filled with shingle ad sand and water and swirled around until dirt is washed away and gold is left in the bottom. |
| Pastroalism | Raising sheep and cattle |
| Pioneer | A person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area. |
| Poll Tax | A tax that Chinese migrants had to pay on entering NZ (1881-1944), in order to restrict their numbers. |
| Prejudice | Feelings of dislike towards a race or group of people and not wanting to change your feelings about them. |
| Pull Factor | Factor which attracts a person and causes them to wish to settle in another place |
| Push Factor | something about their home which causes a person to wish to leave their home, pushes them |
| Raupo Whare | A wooden framed hut thatched with the raupo (bulrush) plant. Most common in the North. |
| Refugee | A person who has been forced to flee their homeland for safety. |
| Segregation | separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, as in schools, housing etc., especially as a form of discrimination. |
| Settlement | a small community or when people establish themselves in a new place |
| Shipwright | Someone that builds or repairs ships. |
| Slate | school children wrote on these. |
| Special Settlement | Where a group of immigrants was given a contract to develop an area of bushland for settlement. |
| Sponsor | Someone who acts as a friend and helps a migrant settle into his or her new country. |
| Steerage class | assisted immigratns who could not bring furniture and housed under the main deck. Cheap passengers |
| Tauiwi | It means ïforeign raceÍ or ïstrange tribeÍ; it refers to the later immigrants who arrived in NZ after the Maori. |
| The New Zealand Company | A British company set up by Edward Gibbon Wakefield to bring organized groups of settlers to NZ in the 1840s. |
| United Kingdom | Comprises Great Britain and Ireland. |
| V Hut | An upside down V-shaped wooden hut. |
| Yellow Peril | The imagined threat to Western civilizations, of being swamped by expanding Asian populations. |
