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| Immigrants to the united States coming in the late 1800s through the early 1900s. They often came from eastern and southern Europe. They experienced conflicts over language, traditions, and religion when they arrived. |
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| Reasons for leaving an area. New immigrants came because of a lack of religious freedom (Russian Jews), money (Poland and Italy), land (Czech, Serbs), or crop failures (Ireland). |
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| Reasons people move to the U.S. Often religious freedom and job opportunities. |
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| To leave a country because of push factors |
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| To enter a country because of pull factors |
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| Discriminated against in Russia because of anti-Semitic policies. |
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| Pull Factors for coming to the U.S. |
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| See U.S. as a fresh start - full of jobs, land, and a chance at a better life. Not all of these things were true, but that was the prevailing belief in some areas of the world. |
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| Entry point for immigrants on the Eastern seaboard after 1892. Next to the Statue of Liberty, poor immigrants from Europe flowed through here in order to enter the U.S. Many immigrants remembered it as the most important day of their lives. |
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| The processing point for U.S. immigrants coming across the Pacific Ocean. It is located in the San Francisco Bay. |
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| A poem written by Emma Lazarus, it is located on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty and asks other countries to to send us "... your poor, your tired, your humbled masses yearning to breathe free..." |
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| textile factories offering little pay for long hours of hard work in terrible conditions. Often where immigrant laborers worked in cities. |
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| Immigrants struggled with how "American" to become. They often wanted to retain some Old World traditions while adopting new American traditions/language. |
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| Neighborhoods in which people of similar backgrounds lived. For example, Italians in New York City enjoyed living in Little Italy where Italian was spoken and Italian traditions remained. |
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| People living in the U.S. who are opposed to immigrants because they fear job loss and/or the changing of American traditions. |
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| Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) |
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| In a racist move, the U.S. bans immigration from China. This was the first immigration restriction in the U.S. |
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| Gentlemen's Agreement (1907) |
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| The U.S. restricts immigration from Japan. |
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| Crowded, dirty homes with many residents in cities. |
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| A muckraker who took pictures of tenements and placed them in a book entitled, "How the Other Half Lives" |
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| Journalists who sought to expose the problems in society at the turn of the 20th Century via books, novels, newspaper articles and photography. |
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| Areas just outside of the cities in which wealthier people lived to escape the pollution, noise and congestion of cities. |
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| People who had enough money to not have to work long hours in factories. They could afford to live in the suburbs and engage in leisure activities. |
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| Time period in which the United States, on the surface, saw people doing well, but when we looked closer, there were problems in society. |
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| Noise pollution, garbage, lack of enough sewers and running water, threat of fire, air pollution, overcrowding, spread of disease due to living conditions and crowding, poverty, crime |
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| Places for poor and immigrants to get services such as showers, education, child care, etc. |
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| A settlement house in Chicago started by Jane Addams |
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