"Age of Migration" Vocab Review

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Across
  1. 4. housing that many poor people moved into in cities; run-down, crowded & unsanitary conditions
  2. 8. to move INTO a new country permanently
  3. 10. A reason one chooses to emigrate
  4. 11. processing station for European immigrants; located in New York Harbor
  5. 12. A reason one chooses to immigrate
  6. 13. anti-immigrant beliefs
  7. 14. the process of blending in with one's "new" culture; for example, learning English in the US
  8. 17. processing station for Asian immigrants; located in San Francisco Bay
  9. 18. To move to a new area
  10. 19. the movement of African-Americans from rural areas of the South to cities in the North, Midwest & West
  11. 20. Land Native Americans were forced to move to as settlers expanded West
  12. 21. the movement of people to cities
Down
  1. 1. Granted settlers 160 acres of land on the Great Plains IF they farmed the land for at least 5 years
  2. 2. area on a ship that immigrants typically bought tickets due to the low price; conditions were cramped & unsanitary
  3. 3. type of neighborhood many immigrants settled in because others there shared the same culture they did (for example-"Little Italy" in NYC or "Chinatown" in San Francisco)
  4. 5. A development in transportation that allowed Americans to travel from the East Coast to the West Coast in only a week
  5. 6. Belief that American settlers should expand across North America
  6. 7. to move OUT OF one's homeland
  7. 9. first immigrant group completely blocked from immigrating to the US
  8. 15. nativist law that limited immigration from European countries
  9. 16. African-Americans who migrated to Kansas to escape the discrimination in the South