Social Studies quiz 2

Old Immigrants

• Refers to individuals immigrating to the United States, mainly from Northern and Western Europe

• Were viewed as “easy to assimilate” due to similar language and customs of previous groups in the United States

New Immigrants

• Refers to individuals immigrating to the United States, mainly from Southern and Eastern Europe, and Asia

• They tended to speak different languages, practice different religions, and have different customs, thus viewed as “difficult to assimilate”

Push Factors

• Reasons why people leave a place and move to another

• These tend to be negative -> reasons that “push” individuals to immigrate

Pull Factors

• Reasons why people choose to move to a certain place

• These tend to be positive -> reasons that “pull” individuals to an area

Ellis Island

• An island in the harbor of New York City

• The chief immigration station of the United States was on Ellis Island from 1892 to 1943, a time when millions of people, especially from Europe, came to the United States

The American Dream

• the belief that with hard work, everyone has the opportunity to succeed in America

• Became a powerful pull factor to the US

Statue of Liberty

• A statue in New York Harbor that represents freedom, liberty, and a chance at a new life to many immigrants who have come to the US

The New Colossus

• A poem by Emma Lazarus that is engraved on a tablet within the pedestal on which the Statue of Liberty stands

• offers an idealistic vision of America as a welcomer and protector of immigrants

Tenements

• a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments (Source: Oxford Languages)

• Often run-down, overcrowded, and unsanitary

Nativism

• Favoring policies geared towards protecting those born in the United States (those “native” to the country)

Quota

A limit (in this case, limiting the amount of people from certain areas of the world who can immigrate to the United States)

Chinese Exclusion Act

• Passed in 1882

• suspended immigration from China to the United States and prevented Chinese who were already in America from going home and reentering the country, effectively stranding thousands of Chinese men and women in the United States.