KEY - Immigration Vocabulary Activity - KEY
Directions: Complete the chart below by writing a definition for each term. All of these terms are in
your textbook in Chapter 21 or the Glossary. Hint: G = glossary / number = the page # in the text
Acculturation
Chinese Exclusion Act
Ellis Island
Nativist
Old Immigrants
New Immigrants
Pull Factors
Push Factors
Statue of Liberty
G/604
The process of holding on to older traditions while adapting to a new culture is
called acculturation.
G/605
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a law passed in 1882 that barred Chinese
laborers from entering the United States for 10 years.
602
Ellis Island was an immigrant receiving station in New York Harbor that opened
in 1892. It processed millions of immigrants arriving from Europe.
604
Nativists wanted to limit immigration and preserve U.S. for native-born white
Protestants.
603
Old Immigrants were the wave of English, Irish, German, and Scandinavian
immigrants who came to the United States in the early to mid 1800s.
603
New Immigrants were groups who arrived in the United States from Southern
and Eastern Europe and Asia in the late 1800s and early 1900s (after 1885).
G/601
Pull Factors are conditions that attract people to move to a new area like jobs,
freedom, family members.
G/600
Push Factors are conditions that drive people from their homeland like famine,
disease, war, prejudice.
G/602
The Statue of Liberty is a large statue symbolizing hope and freedom in New
York Harbor. It was a gift from France and was completed in 1886.
Why do you think America is called the “melting pot”? America is called the “melting pot”
because of all the different cultures that have settled in the country.