Immigration

4. (two words, no spaces) an area within a city where people of the same racial or cultural background settle
6. to adopt the traditions and customs of a new place such as a Chinese immigrant learning to speak English and follow American customs after moving to America
8. (two words, no spaces) a period of rebirth of African American arts, music, culture and literature based in Harlem New York
11. a poor city neighborhood made up of tenements and immigrants often of the same nationality
13. (two words, no spaces) something that appeals to a person and makes them choose a particular destination to immigrate to
14. the areas surrounding the urban industrial cities which attacted the growing middle class and upper class citizens
15. _____ Island was the much harsher processing center on the west coast where most Asian immigrants were admitted to the United States.
16. a name for the poorly constructed apartment buildings immigrants often ended up living in

1. (two words, no spaces) something that makes a person want to leave their home country
2. (two words, no spaces) the belief that immigrants coming to America would meld their culture with ours
3. (two words) the movement of African Americans from farms and plantations in the south to northern citis between 1910 and 1930
5. (two words, no spaces) immigrants from southern and eastern Europe who were Catholic and Jewish, most did not speak English and they moved to the United States after the 1880s
7. a large open area on a ship beneath the deck where most immigrants remained on the trip to America
9. a person who left their original homeland and came to the U.S.
10. ___ island was the immigration processing center that opened in New York Harbor in 1892
12. an ethnic neighborhood in New York City where many African Americans moved during the Great Migration