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Immigration and City Growth Review Sheet—Chapter 20
1. What were the push factors for immigrants coming to the United States?
Poverty, Lack of Opportunity, Shortage of Land, Genocide (ethnic cleansing), Famine, Religious persecution,
Civil War, Oppressive Government
2. What were the pull factors for immigrants coming to the United States?
Religious Freedom, Freedom, Family or Friends already living there, Economic opportunity, Jobs, Equality,
Available land, Hope
3. What regions of Europe did the majority of the NEW (after 1910) immigrants come from? Where did the OLD
immigrants come from?
NEW: Eastern and Southern Europe 2nd Wave
OLD: Northern and Western Europe 1st Wave
4. What is a tenement?
Urban apartment slums
5. What is a ghetto and how were they separated?
Ethnic communities of cities where immigrants from particular countries tended to settle
6. What were names of the major immigration centers and where were they located?
Ellis Island: NYC
Angel Island: San Francisco
7. What influence did political bosses have on immigrants?
Used bribery and force to make them vote and in exchange they offered immigrants jobs and housing (which
could be easily taken away if they went against the Boss)…controlled their lives.
8. What was a settlement house and what is an example of a settlement house?
Provided temporary shelter, medical services, childcare, and education for immigrants
9. Who created the first settlement house in the US?
Jane Addams
10. Which 2 immigrant groups suffered the most discrimination in the US at this time?
Chinese and the Irish
11. Why were laws passed to limit immigration?
Because there were people in the US who did not like immigration or immigrants
12. What was the first law to limit immigration in 1882?
Chinese Exclusion Act
13. What is the belief of nativists?
Opposed immigration, and blamed increasing crime, unemployment, and other problems in the US on
immigrants.
14. Who was Boss Tweed? What did he do?
Corrupt Political Boss in NYC, stole a large sum of money from the city of NY and bribed immigrants with
promises of things in exchange for votes.
15. What were three reasons for the rise in city growth?
Immigration from Other Countries
Specialized Industries (Steel, Meat Packing, Textiles)
Movement of America from Rural to Urban Areas (out of work farmers moving to cities for a job)