SS TEST-IMMIGRATION UNIT
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- Immigration Restriction Act 1924
- law that allowed people to arrived illegally in the United States before 1982 to apply for citizenship
- Push Factors
- condition that drives people fro,m their homelands
- Green Card
- a non permanent card that makes you a citizen after 5 years
- nativists
- people who sought to limit immigration and preserve the country for native born white porotestants
- naturalized citizen
- becoming naturalized in the US
- Immigrate
- to enter a new country for the purpose of settling there.To become established in a new environment. to bring people into a country and settle them as permanent residents there
- Pull factors
- condition that attracts people to move to a new area
- Reverend Josiah Strong
- protestant minister, in 1885.
- Oath of allegiance
- pledge to the loyalty of America
- Emigrate
- to leave a place, especially a native country, to go and live in another country
- Acculturation
- the process of holding on to older traditions while adapting to new culture
- Permanent Resident
- having hold of a green card
- Coyote
- a smuggler that illegal immigrants pay to get across the border because the smugglers know how to get past the border partol
- Legal Immigrant
- immigrant who has permission to enter a country
- Old Immigrants (1840-1860)
- English, Irish, German, Scandinavians
- Illegal Immigrant
- immigrant who enters a country without permission
- Pogrom
- In Eastern Europe, an organized attack on a jewish community
- naturalization
- to complete the official process for becoming a citizen
- Assimilation
- an immigrant(usually children) becomes a part of new culture
- New Immigrants (!860-1920s)
- arrived in the South and Eastern Europe. They were Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Greeks, Russians