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Immigration Unit Vocabulary
1. Old Immigrants: Immigrants from Northern European countries.
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2. New Immigrants: Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe.
3. Steerage: An area near the base/rudder/engine room of the ship. Tickets in steerage were the cheapest on the ship.
4. Ellis Island: Point of legal entry on the Eastern Coast of the United States. New York
5. Angel Island: Point of legal entry on the Western Coast of the United States. California
6. Benevolent Societies: Aid organizations that offered immigrants help in cases of sickness, unemployment and death.
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Immigration
A new wave of industrialization in the late 1800's brought large numbers of
immigrants to U.S. shores.
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A New Wave of Immigration
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Old Immigrants ­ Northern Europeans
(England, Ireland,Scotland,Germany)
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New Immigrants- Southern and Eastern
European (Italy,Czechoslovakia,Greece,Hungary, Poland,
Russia)
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7.Push Factors: Forces driving immigrants away from their country of origin.
Examples: disease, famine, lack of jobs, war
8. Pull Factors: Forces which drew immigrants towards the United States.
Examples: Employment opportunities, freedom, family & friends
9. Tenement: Immigrant housing, usually in large urban (city) areas. Overcrowded, forcing multiple family members to live in cramped, dirty conditions.
10. Sweatshops: Factories that employed immigrants. Working conditions were poor and unhealthy.
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Irish Potato Famine
In Ireland , the Great Famine was a period of mass
starvation,
disease and emigration between 1845 and 1852.
The cause of famine was a potato disease commonly
known as potato blight .
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Push­left country of origin due to persecution.
USA 1st Amendment­ freedom religion
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✓ pull­
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11. Nativist­ opposed new immigrants. Believed that they would
refuse to learn American customs and would harm American
society.
12. Nationality­ belonging to a certain country by birth or
naturalization.
13. Neighborhood­ an area or region that people live and
associate or connect themselves with.
14. Passport­ a government issued document establishing
citizenship allowing a person to legally leave/enter their
country as well as those abroad. First issued in 1920.
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15. Detain­ to keep in custody/prevent from leaving
16. Prejudice­ hatred directed toward a particular religious,
racial or national group.
17. Chinese Exclusion Act ­ banned Chinese people from immigrating to
the U.S. for ten years 1882­1892.
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Steerage Sleeping Quarters
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Voyage to America: Ellis Island/Angel Island
Immigrants in 1st and 2nd class cabins did not have
to go through extensive processing at Ellis Island/Angel Island. Steerage passengers remained at the bottom of the ship
and had to undergo thorough inspections upon arrival.
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Immigrant Life in America
Adjusting to life in America meant learning the English language,
finding a place to live, getting a job
Tenement Living: Immigrant housing. Crowded, poorly built apartment buildings.
Tenements on the lower east side of Manhattan (early 1900's)
Sweatshops: Factories and workshops
where immigrants (men, women and children)
worked long hours in unhealthy conditions.
Sweatshop in Brooklyn (early 1900's)
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Tenements
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Jacob Riis­ wrote: How the other Half Lives which exposed the horrible
conditions of tenement living.
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Opposition to Immigration
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Begins
Fear that new Immigrants would take jobs away from old Immigrants by
working for lower pay.
Nativists ­ opposed new immigrants. Believed that they would refuse to learn
American customs and would harm American society.
Chinese Exclusion Act - banned Chinese people from immigrating to
the U.S. for ten years 1882-1892.
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"Give me your tired, your
poor,
Your huddled masses yearning
to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your
teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless,
tempest­tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the
golden door!"
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