Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Immigration during the 19th century: One Nation chapter 32

Immigrants in the United States during the 19th century

Identify the following terms:
Immigrant
Tenement
Assimilate
Chinese exclusion acts
Stereotype


True/False explain
Most of the new immigrants to the US after 1885 came from England.
Many Jews fled to the US in the 1880’s as a result of pogroms.
Most of the immigrants on the West Coast came from China and Korea.
Most of the Chinese immigrants in the second half of the 1800’s worked as laborers and factory workers.
Most Latino immigrants planned to remain in the US permanently.
Describe life in a European immigrant neighborhood in a big US city (New York, Boston, Philadelphia, etc.).

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