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Immigration
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Social Studies
9th Grade
11/21/2011

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Term
immigration
Definition
coming into a country
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emigration
Definition
exiting your native country
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migration
Definition
movement of humans from one place to another
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displaced person
Definition
forced to leave his or her home
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refugee
Definition
someone who chooses to leave their home
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nativeism
Definition
someone who does not like immigration
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assimilate
Definition
adopting customs in order to fit in
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melting pot
Definition
blending togther of cultures and beliefs
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salad bowl theory
Definition
immigrants come but keep their unique cultures
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north america
Definition
country that has the 2nd largest amount
of immigrants
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manifest destiny
Definition
the belief that america was destined to expand west.
Term
Transcontinental Railroad
Definition
An american railroad system that would connect the pacific ocean and atlantic ocean. Took 7 years to complete.
Term
Union pacific
Definition
eastern part of the transcontinental railroad
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Central Pacific
Definition
western part of the transcontinental railroad that went through the Sierra Nevada Mountains and finished before the east. Workers were mostly Chinese.
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English
Definition
Contributed English language
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Germans
Definition
Settled mostly in Pennsylvania
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Africans
Definition
Brought over through slave trade
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Scandonavians
Definition
Settled in the Great Plains
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Irish
Definition
Left Ireland due to potatoe famine
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Utah
Definition
Place where both teams of railroad workers met.
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Homestead Act
Definition
Gave land to people out west
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