| A | B |
|---|
| push factor | conditions that drive people from their homelands |
| pull factor | conitions that attract people to a new area |
| assimilate | process of becoming part of another culture |
| Emma Lazarus | wrote the New Colossus |
| urbanization | incrase of people living in the cities |
| urban | city |
| rural | farm |
| new immigrants | after 1880; came from Southern and Eastern Europe |
| Angel Island | port of entry for Asian immigrants in California |
| old immigrants | 1840-1880; came from northern and western Europe |
| tenement | run-down, dirty, crowded apartments for immigrants |
| medical exam | the most dreaded part of Ellis Island |
| steerage | bottom of the boat on the way to America; lower-class citizens stayed here |
| nativist | person who wants to limit immigration and keep America for white born Protestants |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882- no Chinese workers were allowed to enter the U.S for 10 years |
| quota | a set #- only a certain amount of immigrants could enter the US from a country per year |
| Modern Immigrants | 1970-present; primarily from Latin America and Mexico |
| melting pot | theory of immigration that immigrants bring their culture to the US and blend with others to form the American culture |
| salad bowl | theory of immigration that immigrants do not lose their cultural identity when they come to the US |
| Hull House | founded by Jane Addams- 1st settlement house in Chicago |
| The New Colossus | poem found at the base of the Statue of Liberty |
| land-bridge theory | states that Native Americans are decendants from people who walked from Russia to ALaska when the continents were connected |
