Immigration Farley

Immigration

• Migration to a new location
• An arrangement placing a limit on the number of immigrants from each country
• 1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States
• anti-foreign feeling that rose in the late 1800's due to increased immigration
• The immigration station on the west coast where Asian immigrants, mostly Chinese gained admission to the U.S. at San Francisco Bay. Conditions here were much harsher than Ellis Island in New York.

Immigrant

• a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
• Migration to a new location
• An arrangement placing a limit on the number of immigrants from each country
• 1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States
• anti-foreign feeling that rose in the late 1800's due to increased immigration

push factors

• factor that causes people to leave their homelands (Ex. War, Religious persecution, lack of land/jobs)
• a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
• Migration to a new location
• An arrangement placing a limit on the number of immigrants from each country
• 1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States

pull factors

• A factor that draws or attracts people to another location (Ex. land, freedom, jobs)
• factor that causes people to leave their homelands (Ex. War, Religious persecution, lack of land/jobs)
• a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
• Migration to a new location
• An arrangement placing a limit on the number of immigrants from each country

New Immigrants

• Immigrants who came to the United States during and after the 1880s; most were from southern and eastern Europe (Ex. Russian, Polish, Italian, Greek, Hungarian)
• A factor that draws or attracts people to another location (Ex. land, freedom, jobs)
• factor that causes people to leave their homelands (Ex. War, Religious persecution, lack of land/jobs)
• a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
• Migration to a new location

Ellis Island

• An immigrant receiving station that opened in 1892, where immigrants were given a medical examination and only allowed in if they were healthy
• Immigrants who came to the United States during and after the 1880s; most were from southern and eastern Europe (Ex. Russian, Polish, Italian, Greek, Hungarian)
• A factor that draws or attracts people to another location (Ex. land, freedom, jobs)
• factor that causes people to leave their homelands (Ex. War, Religious persecution, lack of land/jobs)
• a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country

Pogroms

• Government supported attacks against Jews in Russia
• An immigrant receiving station that opened in 1892, where immigrants were given a medical examination and only allowed in if they were healthy
• Immigrants who came to the United States during and after the 1880s; most were from southern and eastern Europe (Ex. Russian, Polish, Italian, Greek, Hungarian)
• A factor that draws or attracts people to another location (Ex. land, freedom, jobs)
• factor that causes people to leave their homelands (Ex. War, Religious persecution, lack of land/jobs)

Assimilation

• process of becoming part of another country or culture
• Government supported attacks against Jews in Russia
• An immigrant receiving station that opened in 1892, where immigrants were given a medical examination and only allowed in if they were healthy
• Immigrants who came to the United States during and after the 1880s; most were from southern and eastern Europe (Ex. Russian, Polish, Italian, Greek, Hungarian)
• A factor that draws or attracts people to another location (Ex. land, freedom, jobs)

Ethnic Neighborhood

• an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background
• process of becoming part of another country or culture
• Government supported attacks against Jews in Russia
• An immigrant receiving station that opened in 1892, where immigrants were given a medical examination and only allowed in if they were healthy
• Immigrants who came to the United States during and after the 1880s; most were from southern and eastern Europe (Ex. Russian, Polish, Italian, Greek, Hungarian)

Old Immigrants

• Immigrants who had come to the US before the 1880s from Britain, Germany, Ireland, and Scandinavia, or Northern Europe
• an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background
• process of becoming part of another country or culture
• Government supported attacks against Jews in Russia
• An immigrant receiving station that opened in 1892, where immigrants were given a medical examination and only allowed in if they were healthy