Unit 5 Emergence of Modern America: Week 1

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Across
  1. 5. an apartment building that is usually run down and overcrowded
  2. 7. The United States is often called this due to the many cultures, ethnicities and peoples that blend in one place.
  3. 8. the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
  4. 11. an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background
  5. 12. This was opened in New York Harbor to help with immigration to America.
  6. 13. An African American who left the South for the West after the Civil War.
Down
  1. 1. 160 acres of free land in the Great Plains given to anyone that pays a $10 filing fee.
  2. 2. Before 1871, most immigrants to America came from Northern and Western Europe (Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden)
  3. 3. Law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers to America.
  4. 4. Movement of people from rural areas to cities
  5. 6. 1921 legislation that limited immigration to 3% of the people of their nationality living in the US in 1910
  6. 9. from 1871 until 1921, most immigrants came from Southern and Eastern Europe (Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, present-day Hungary, and former Yugoslavia), as well as Asia (China and Japan).
  7. 10. New farming technology that helped make farming much more profitable in the Great Plains region