Social Studies II
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- Anti-semitism
- Hatred and persecution of Jews.
- Angel Island, CA
- Entry station for immigrants coming into America.
- Describe 2 PUSH factors that brought immigrants to America
- 1.POVERTY: small farmers lost their land when they could not pay rent or heavy government taxes. 2. LACK OF OPPORTUNITY: With few opportunities in the countryside, the people without land had no choice but to move elsewhere.
- Who did settlement houses provide services to?
- The poor
- What was the immigration station in California called?
- Angel Island
- Describe 2 PULL factors that brought immigrants to America?
- 1. JOBS: Immigrants sought jobs to support parents back home or to save to start their own families. 2. OPPORTUNITY: Immigrants were seeking opportunity to make and save money to send back to their homelands.
- Nativism
- Belief that immigrants threaten traditional American culture and institutions.
- Why were immigrant workers hated by American workers?
- Because they would work for lower wages.
- "New Wage Earner"
- Unskilled workers who work for less pay, many were women and children.
- Steerage
- Large compartments below deck that most immigrants travelled in.
- Why was New Netherlands unique (different)?
- Because it provided religious tolerance. They accepted people of all religions without prejudice.
- Tenements
- Apartment houses where large families shared one or two rooms, often without heat or water.
- In the movie, The Godfather Part II, describe everything that happens to Vito Andolini when he comes from Italy to Ellis Island
- 1. A nurse weighs and checks him. 2. The customs official talks to Vito and asks him his name. 3. When the customs official sees the name of Vito's town on his jacket, he gives Vito the last name of Corleone.
- Ellis Isand, NY
- Entry station for immigrants coming into America.
- Immigration
- The movement of people from one country to make their home in another country.
- What was the immigration station in New York called?
- Ellis Island
- Why did Christopher Columbus come to America?
- 1. To find Gold 2. Spread Christianity 3. To earn a lot of glory for his accomplishments.
- Urbanization
- The movement of people into the cities.
- Was peace a PUSH factor for immigration?
- No, it was a PULL factor.
- What did early Americans cross to come to the North American Continent?
- Alaskan Land Bridge
- PUSH factors
- 1. pushed immmigrants from their homelands. 2. poverty, war, religious persecution.
- PULL factors
- 1. Pulled immigrants to the U.S. 2. Jobs, money, opportunity and a new life.
- Where were most immigrants coming from when they came to the U.S. between 1870 and 1920 from?
- Southern and Eastern Europe.
- One type of immigrant?
- African American
- Who did Lord Baltimore found Maryland as a safe haven for?
- Catholics
- What were the settlers of New France searching for?
- Furs
- Name 3 kinds of tests immigrants had to pass to gain entry in the U.S.
- 1. Health 2. Mental 3. Literacy or reading