| A | B |
|---|
| Roundtrippers | immigrant who planned to get wealthy and return home |
| steerage | the poorest part of the ship where immigrants stayed.It had horrible conditions |
| Ethnic Neighborhoods | an area where immigrants could settle togetheir to preserve their culture |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | banned all chinese workers from coming to America |
| Skyscrapers | Made more room for other buildings and things because skyscrapers were built upward |
| tenements | Was when more then one family was all crowded into one apartment to save money on rent |
| settlement houses | Were places where the poor and immigrants could go for food,shelter,education,and jobs |
| leizer time | Was free time when people could read books,go to the park,and go to the movies and just relax |
| Gentlemen's Agreement | limited Japanese immigrants from coming to America |
| Thomas Edison | Invented phonographs,movies,and light bulbs |
| What pulled immigrants to America | JOBS,dreams of wealth,freedom of religion,and political freedom |
| What pushed them to America | religious persecution(Jews),wars,war threats,overcrowding,poverty,and lack of oppertunity |
| Old Immigrants | settled in rural areas,came from Northern/Western europe, and came with some money |
| New Immigrants | settled in urban areas,came from Southern/Eastern europe,came with no money,and were very poor |
