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Social Studies
9th Grade
12/16/2011

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tenament housing
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run-down apartment
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ten dollars
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the amount it cost to cross the Atlantic
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44% of immigrants
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# immigrants that wanted to return home
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24000000 people
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the # of people who come to america between 1880 1924
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southern & eastern Europe
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where most imigrants came from
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xenophobia
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hatred of immigrants
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chinese exclusion act
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band all chinese immigration
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Immigration Act of 1924
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limited the mumber of immigrants to 2%
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Gentleman's Agreement
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Japan's government agreed to stop emigrations to the US
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Southern and Eastern Europe
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new immigrants were mainly from.
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Catholicism and Judaism
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new immigrants mainly practice these two religions
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Bird of passage
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immigrant who comes to the U.S and know that they wanted to return to their homeland
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German
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Pennsylvania is made up of mostly this ancestry.
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Irish
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Lackawanna County is made up mostly of this ancestry.
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Great Hall
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Medical and legal exams took place in this room at Ellis Island.
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Two problems created by immigrants
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1. over population
2. increase in crime
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