Topic 6.8 - Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age

New immigrants

Immigrants that came from the Italy, Russia and Hungary between 1880-1920 were known as \______.

steerage

The belly of the ship (the lowest sections, beneath the deck) that immigrant passengers with the cheapest tickets were housed.

Austria-Hungary, Greece, Russia, Italy

List 2 countries that "new immigrants" came from?

Germany, Ireland, England

List 2 countries that "old immigrants" came from?

Old immigrants

Immigrants that came to the United States prior to 1880; they mostly came from England, Ireland, and Germany.

Famine, conscription

List the push factors for immigration to the United States during the late 19th century.

Jobs, religious freedom, political freedom, cheap farmland

List the pull factors for immigration to the United States during the late 19th century.

Buckwheats

Rural Americans who escaped the isolation and loneliness of farms and moved to the cities were called \________.

Ellis Island

From 1892 to 1954, most European immigrants were processed at this government facility in New York City.

Angel Island

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, \______ processed immigrants from Japan and The Philippines.

Chinese Exclusion Act

Law put in place in 1882 that banned laborers from a specific country. This law was re-issued every 10 years until 1943.

Dallas-oil, Pittsburgh-steel, Dayton-cash registers, Denver-minerals

List one city that specialized in a specific industry during the mid to late 19th century.

Dallas-oil, Pittsburgh-steel, Dayton-cash registers, Denver-minerals

List another (different) city that specialized in a specific industry during the mid to late 19th century.

ghetto

An urban neighborhood of the poor; usually ethnic in origin.

11th Ward

Identify the (specific) extremely crowded area in New York City that was home to blocks and block of multi-family housing units.

tenements

A multi-dwelling apartment building that housed the poor working class, often immigrants, in cities across the nation.

smog

Factories made \______ a real problem in cities because there was no pollution control or regulation on what could be released into the atmosphere.