Immigration, Migration of people to a new location, Push Factors of Immigration, reasons people emigrate and leave the nations such as economic troubles, overcrowding, poverty, Pull Factors of Immigration, reasons to migrate to a new area such as Economic Opportunity ($), Jobs/workers were needed, land, peace, stability, and freedom., Immigrant, a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there, Ellis Island Immigration Station, the port of entry for most European immigrants arriving in New York between 1892 and 1954, Angel Island Immigration Station, the port of entry for most Asian immigrants arriving in San Francisco between 1910 and 1940, Old Immigrants (1820-1880), "Old" Immigrant: Northern and Western European (English, Germans, Irish Catholics), assimilated easier, high skill level, often spoke English, New Immigrants (1880-1920), "New" Immigrant : South/Eastern European, wouldn't assimilate, close- knit community, uneducated, poor, unskilled laborers, Immigrant, a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there, Immigration Act of 1917, restricted immigration by requiring immigrants to be able to read and write a language, medical examination, the process by which a medical professional investigates the body of a patient for signs of disease before allowing entry to the US, Statue of Liberty, a large statue symbolizing hope and freedom for European immigrants which is found on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, Nativism, the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants., Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, law that suspended Chinese immigration into America. The ban was supposed to last 10 years, but it was expanded several times and was essentially in effect until WWII. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law that restricted immigration into the United States of an ethnic working group. Extreme example of nativism of period, Assimilation, the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another, Tenements, Urban apartment buildings that served as housing for poor factory workers that were usually immigrants. Tenements were often poorly constructed and overcrowded.

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