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A neighborhood where people of the same race, religion, or country live.
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Ghetto
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Although a poor place to live it offered the Immigrants a place to get used to life in the U.S.A. via segregation
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An apartment house with poor safety, sanitation, and comfort conditions.
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Tenement
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apartment housing built quickly and poorly to meet demand for the many people moving to cities.
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A very tall building with many floors, elevators, and a steely frame
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Skyscraper
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1st skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building in Chicago. Most well known was the Empire State Building in New York City, NY
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A feeling of citizens who are against immigrants.
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Nativism
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Many Americans wanted to prevent Asian immigration because they feared losing their jobs to them.
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Keeping a person or a group from coming into the country.
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Exclusion
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The Chinese Exclusion Act banned Chinese Immigration for 10 years.
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A movement of people within a country or area
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Migration
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One million African Americans had _______ to northern cities of Chicago, Detroit & New York City.
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Feelings against people because of their skin color
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Racism
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African Americans faced ______ and discrimination in the North also.
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U.S. Government passed this law to limit Chinese immigration
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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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Passed as result of Nativism movement to stop Asian immigration
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After 1882, immigrants had to land on a small island near the Statue of Liberty where they were screened for criminals and diseases.
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Ellis Island
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Here records of their arrival were kept. Most ended up in cities working for low wages in factories
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In 1909, the strongest african-american group to fight for equal rights.
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NAACP (National Association for Advancement of Colored Peoples)
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An organization that fought against racism in jobs, housing, and education.
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In 1848, a treaty with Mexico settling the boundary between the U.S. & Mexico gave the U.S. about one million square miles of land
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Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo
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Many immigrants from Mexico came back to the Southwest U.S. to live in freedom, find jobs, & relatives
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a large farm that grows a single crop
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plantation
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ex. cash corps like cotton & tobacco
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judging people without knowing them
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prejudice
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in Canada English speaking people were prejudiced against French speaking people
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treating some people worse than others because of prejudice
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discrimination
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U.S. employers cannot discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, marital status, ability, religion, etc.
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a neighborhood where a particular ehnic group is forced to live
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ghetto
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Early New York had 5 boroughs which were ethnic __________
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a limited amount
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quota
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Chinese and Japanese were limited by immigration laws in th e1920s that set ________
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a person who flees his or her home because of war, political danger, famine or economic hardship
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refugee
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Immigrants to America looking for freedom & safety were political __________
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involving many cultures mixed together
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multicultural
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Canada and the USA have always been ___________ but are moreso recently
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