Across
- 4. favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people
- 5. a period of U.S history in the 1870s noted for political corruption, financial speculation, and the lives of wealthy industrialists and financiers.
- 6. a mixture of people from different cultures and races who blend together by abandoning their native languages and cultures
- 8. a law, enacted in 1882, that prohibited all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials from entering the U.S
- 11. encourage people to leave their points of origin and settle elsewhere
- 12. a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence
Down
- 1. in New York, the land of opportunity, that millions of poor European immigrants worked their way into the middle-class thanks to the city's booming economy and its free schools
- 2. an immigration station located in San Francisco Bay where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated
- 3. a 1907-1908 agreement between the U.S and Japanese governments to limit Japanese immigration to the U.S
- 7. something that draw a population to another area or place.
- 9. the main immigration center for the United States from 1892-1954
- 10. a minority group's adoption of the beliefs and way of life of the dominant culture