Unit 7: Immigration in America

Match the following

• lacking protection; likely to be hurt physically or emotionally; weak

• Naturalize

• someone who is related to a person or group of people who lived in the past

•      Descendant

• to allow someone from another country to become a citizen

• Tenement

• an apartment building, often overcrowded and in need of repairs

• Vulnerable

• relating to the management of money and resources to produce, buy, and sell goods and services

• Economic

Vocab: What does immigration mean?

Vocab: What does persecuted mean?

Vocab: What does pogrom mean?

Vocab: What does nativism mean?

What were the two reasons that immigration to America slowed down from the 1770s through the l820s?

Which was a disaster that caused mass immigration from Ireland?

• Potato Blight

• Industrial Revolution

• Great Famine

• Irish Rebellion

What started replacing sailing ships?

• Steamships

• Rowboats

• Airplanes

• Submarines

What were the 3 reasons for immigration to the United States by old immigrants?

Who started working in cities so that they could find customers?

• Skilled Workers

• Business Owners

• Unskilled Laborers

• Farmers