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