Unit 3: Immigration

Visa

Official permission from a country that allows a person from another country to enter live or work there for a certain amount of time

Push factor

Negative things that make people want to leave their country ex. War, poverty, political and religious persecution

Pull factor

Positive things that attract people to a country ex. Freedom of religion

New immigrant

Southern and eastern European immigrants who arrived in the US in a great way between 1880 and 1920

Old immigrant

Steerage

Third class accommodations on a steam ship

Ellis island

Island in NY Harbour that served as an immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving to the US

Angel island

Immigrant processing station that open in San Francisco Bay in 1910

Melting pot

Society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form to one culture

Nativism

Inclination to favor native inhibits as opposed to immigrants

Chinese exclusion act

1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers

Urbanization

Movement of people from rural to urban areas ; expansion of cities and/or an increase in the number of people living in them

Rural to urban migrants

People who move from an agricultural area to a city

Skyscrapers

Very tall buildings

Elisha Otis

Invented the elevator safety pull

Mass transit

Public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people

Suburbs

Residential area on the edge of a city or large town

Frederick Law Olmstead

American landscape architect, journalist, and social critic. Father of American landscape architecture

Tenements

Multi story buildings divided into apartments to house as many residents as possible

Cholera

A severe bacterial infection of the small intestine that causes dehydration usually caused by drinking contaminated water