Immigration Vocab
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- immigrant
- a person coming to a country
- emigrant
- a person leaving a country
- assimilation
- the adoption of a culture
- nativist
- a person who cares more about native people than immigrants
- Chinese Exlusion Act
- prohibited all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials from entering the U.S.
- Gentlemen's Agreement
- agreement by the government of Japan to limit Japanese emigration to the U.S.
- Pogroms
- an organized attack on a group of people
- Urbanization
- the growth of cities
- Tenement
- a run-down apartment building
- Settlement House
- community center providing assistance to residents, mostly immigrants in a slum neighborhood
- Jane Addams
- established settlement houses to help immigrants founder of Chicago's Hull House in 1889
- slums
- thickly populated neighborhood, dirty, run-down, poor living conditions
- Americanize
- to make or become American
- stereotype
- a biased opinion of someone because of their race, religion, or culture
- push factor
- a factor that makes someone leave their country
- pull factor
- a factor that encourages someone to come to a country
- naturalization
- the process of getting citizenship
- steerage
- a lowest class on a ship - most immigrants traveled in this
- ethnic group
- a group from a certain country or culture
- row houses
- a single-family dwelling that shares side walls with other similar houses
- ellis island
- U.S. immigration center in New York
- old immigration
- immigration before 1885 - most were from northwestern Europe
- new immigration
- immigration after 1885 - most were from southeastern Europe
- discrimination
- treating some people better than others without any fair reasons
- Angel Island
- west coast U.S. immigration center
- Mark Twain
- an author who wrote many books like, Huckelberry Finn. Real name was Samuel Clemens.
- Realism
- the showing of things as they really are in a form of art (realist, not romance)
- vaudeville
- entertainment that has short performances, including songs, dances, and comedy routines
- ragtime
- music in which the styles of African American spirituals and European music were blended
- Joseph Pulitzer
- was owner of the newspaper, "World"
- William R. Hearst
- owner of the New York public, "Journal"
- yellow journalism
- exaggeration reporting by the newspapers or magazines to attracrt readers