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16 Cards in this Set
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Push factors
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things that make people emigrate from their home countries
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Pull factors
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things that make people want to come somewhere
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Emigrant
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A person who moves away from their home country
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Immigrant
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Someone who moves to another country
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Indentured Servents
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someone who works for someone in exchange for passage to America
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Enclave
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a small group of people with a similarity
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Steerage
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The part of a ship where people with the cheapest fare travel
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Nativism
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the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants
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Refugees
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A person fleeing persecution in their home country
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Foreign born
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someone who wasn't born in the country that they live in now
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Undocumented immigrants
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immigrants that came here without appropriate legal documents
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Irish potato famine
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a famine in ireland that caused a million deaths, and lots of people immigrate to america
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The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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the peace treaty between the US and mexico in 1848 which gave the US the bottom half of what is now the US
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Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
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A law passed that suspended chinese immigration and naturalization
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National Origins Acts (1921 and 1924)
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1921- limited the number of people immigrating, favored Northern Europe
1924- put limit on overall immigration, 164,000 per year |
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Immigration Act of 1965
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took away quotas on nationality limits, favored skilled workers
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