Immigration unit
Terms
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- salad bowl
- the idea that people keep their individual flavors when they immigrate
- traditions
- customs, ideas, and beliefs passed down from one generation to the next
- transcontinental railroad
- cross-country railroad built by Chinese immigrants
- famine
- a time when food is scarce
- American
- a person who is born in the USA or becomes a citizen
- green card
- an identity card showing the permanent resident status of an alien in the USA
- melting pot
- the idea that people lose their uniqueness when they they immigrate
- asylum
- a place of retreat or security
- alien
- a foreign-born resident who has not been naturalized
- immigrant
- a person who has moved to a foreign land
- persecution
- harassment or oppression of people
- teniment
- crowded apartment with shared bathrooms
- naturalized citizen
- a person of foreign birth who has been granted citizenship in the USA
- refugee
- a person who leaves their homeland to escape persecution, the dangers of war or natural disaster
- visa
- a mark or stamp in a passport by a country to show that the person may enter into and travel within the country
- prejudice
- a strong dislike of others that is not based on facts