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| After 1881 most immigrants came to America from this locality |
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| Passed in 1882 to end labor immigration from this Asian country |
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| Immigrants who came to America temporarily to earn money. |
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| Anti-immigrant Americans who were worried about newcomers changing their culture and taking away jobs. |
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| Many African-Americans hurting financially, moved from the south during the 1890s, hoping to find jobs up north in the big cities. |
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| An immigration station set up in New York city in 1892 |
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| The location for new immigrants in New York City. Do to the large influx, it was replaced by Ellis Island. |
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| The immigration station in San Francisco. It handled newcomers from Asia. |
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| Several hundred were set up in America to aid recently arrived immigrants. Hull House in Chicago was the most famous. |
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| A middle-class educated woman who ran Hull House. |
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| Most immigrants crossed the ocean to America after 1873 by this manner. Prior to this innovation the sailing ship was employed. |
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| Individuals who would meet an immigrant who disembarked and offer that person housing, job etc. in exchange for a percentage of payment. |
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| Most new arrivals settled in this type of locality. |
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| Most recent immigrants avoided settling in this region of America during the Gilded Age |
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| Low paying industrial jobs. |
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| Most immigrants found this type of employment in the cities. |
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| Immigrants tended to establish this kind of neighborhood in urban areas. |
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| Required of immigrants since 1917. It passed over President Wilson's veto. |
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| During the Gilded Age - 1870-1900 how many immigrants arrived in America? |
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| An apartment building that housed most poor immigrants. |
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| This fee was imposed on most immigrants until 1952. |
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| Groups e.g. a small village of Italians would migrate to America to remain. This type of immigration was called. |
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| Term coined for the mishmash of Immigrants flowing into America and assimilating. |
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| Contemporary immigrants maintaining their ethnic identify. |
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