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4. Immigration, came to the U.S. and were generally wealthy, educated, skilled, and were from southern and eastern Europe
8. Movement, an immigrant to the United States becoming a person who shares American values, beliefs, and customs by assimilating into American society
9. Housing, building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access
11. policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against immigrants
12. Communities, grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes

1. the process of making an area more urban
2. Exclusion Act, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers
3. Island, island in New York Harbor that was the United States' busiest immigrant inspection station
5. Adams Hull House, provide social and educational opportunities for working class people
6. Riis “How The Other Half Lives”, first significant New York legislation to curb poor conditions in tenement housing
7. Island, Originally the home of a military installation
10. Pot, heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" with a common culture