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REVIEW SHEET – CHAPTER 21 – IMMIGRATION
PAGES 558-581 – USE A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER
OLD IMMIGRANTS
NEW IMMIGRANTS
STEERAGE
ETHNIC GROUP
ASSIMILATION
NATIVISTS
POGROMS
ELLIS ISLAND
ANGEL ISLAND
ASSIMILATE
TENEMENTS
SETTLEMENT HOUSES
BUILDING CODES
CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT
QUOTA SYSTEM
IMMIGRATION ACTS
“MELTING POT”
URBANIZATION
QUESTIONS: -5 FOR NOT WRITING IN COMPLETE SENTENCES
1. Describe 3 push factors from 1840 to 1914 that led to immigration from Europe.
2. Describe 3 pull factors from 1840 to 1914 that led people to immigrate to the United
States and not to other countries. What was the most important pull factor?
3. Why didn’t the new immigrants assimilate as quickly as the new immigrants? Why
did the children in the family assimilate more quickly than the rest of the family?
4. Give 2 reasons why people settled in the cities in the 1800’s.
5. What problems were created in the cities when the population increased?
6. What was the main reason nativists opposed immigration?
7. Why did the new immigrants face more prejudice and discrimination than the old
immigrants?
8. Why was the United States nicknamed “the Great American Melting Pot”?