Immigration Themes and Concepts

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old immigrants

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• Came to the US before 1880

• Northern and Western Europe (England, Ireland, Germany)

• Had saved money for the voyage and then to get started living on

• Light skinned white people

• Spoke English

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Push factors of immigration

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Reasons that drive people to leave their home country.

• Religious Freedom

• Political Persecution

• war

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Pull factors of immigration

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Economic Opportunities (jobs)

“Chain immigrants”

Land Availability

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3 main themes of immigration

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• 1. a tough decision to leave home and family

• 2. a hard and costly journey with an uncertain end

• 3. difficulties of learning a new language and adjusting to a foreign culture

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Describe an immigrants voyage to America

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packed everything they owened

took a train to a port city

rode in Steerage on the steamships

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Ellis Island

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Immigration processing station in New York designed to let the Immigrants IN

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Angel Island

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Immigration station located in San Francisco

designed to keep immigrants OUT

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Cultural Pluralism

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Coexistence of diverse cultures in a society.

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Assimilation

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Process by which immigrants adopt the customs of the host country.

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Ethnic Neighborhoods

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Areas where specific ethnic groups reside.

Provided a sense of home in a land far away

Little Italy or Chinatown