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16 Cards in this Set
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three push factors for people to leave their countries |
no jobs, couldnt own land, couldnt leave social class, starving to death , no education. |
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three pull factors for America |
free education, could move around social class, could own land |
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push factors that made blacks wanna leave south |
racism, bad rules, wanted jobs |
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ward boss and immigrant relationship |
immigrants helped him stay in power and voted for whoever the boss said. immigrants got jobs, citizenship, house |
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neigborhoods of one culture |
ghetto |
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living conditions in tenements of new york |
crowded, sewage was in streets, dirty, lots of diseases, babies died young, couldnt shower, crime, |
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how bessemir steel changed it |
allowed buildings to have more stories since they had a strong base now. |
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why did immigrants prefer cities over rural |
plenty of jobs in cities, find others of their own culture in ghettos. all the factories were in the cities |
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name of island where people came |
ellis island |
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idea of liberty poem |
welcomes the immmigrants, land of opporunity, your life can be better here |
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where is the poem inscribed |
on the bottom of the statue of liberty |
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why were children preferred over adults in factories |
pay kids less, hands could fit into smaller places. |
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what is a nativist |
person who hates immigrants |
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rural |
countryside , outside of the city |
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urban |
city or large populated area |
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what tragedy happened in building factory, how did it affect laws |
doors were locked an people burned to death/ jumped off. people saw that the gov needs to make laws to protect workers |
