Immigration Vocabulary

An immigrant is:

• A person who leaves a new country

• A person who is discriminated against

• A person who comes to live in a foreign country

• A native

A Push Factor is:

• Conditions that encourage someone to leave

• Conditions that motivate someone to enter a country

• How many times someone has been pushed

• How much someone wants to move

A Primary Source is:

• An artifact that was created by telling oral stories about the event

• Stories passed down from generation to generation about a historic event

• The first source on a paper

• An artifact (diary, document, etc) or any other source of information that was created by someone who witnessed the event.

A Pull Factor is:

• Something that attracts/motivates people to move to a certain place

• Something keeping immigrants in their home country

• Something that is pulling someone towards their family

• How many times the immigrant ship can be pulled to shore

The definition of influences:

• Not having an effect on someone's choices

• Having an effect on someone's character, behavior, or actions

• Something that encourages someone to stay

When Fievel Mousekewitz's family were being chased and their house was burned down, this was an example of a:

• Push Factor

• Pull Facor

• Primary Source

When Fievel's dad thought that there were no cats in America this was an example of:

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor

• Primary Source

When past immigrants thought that the streets in America were paved with gold, this was an example of a:

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor

• Immigrant

When a country goes through war and poverty, this would be an example of a:

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor

• Immigrant

• Naturalization

Money and jobs are ________________ that pull immigrants towards America.

• Influences

• Primary Sources

• Immigrants