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  • What were conditions like in tenements?
    Overcrowded and unsanitary
  • What was the immigration station on the East Coast?
    Ellis Island
  • What did immigrants face after getting into the United States?
    Had to find a place to live, a place to work, and learn a new language
  • What did they make in Boston to help transportation?
    Subways
  • What was happening with farming at the time?
    New innovations in farm equipment; didn't need as many workers so people moved to cities
  • How did people get to America?
    Poor conditions on steamships
  • What was the Americanization movement?
    designed to assimilate people of wide-ranging cultures into the dominant culture
  • Who did nativists believe were the "right" people to come to the United States?
    Western Europeans
  • What were tenements?
    2 or 3 families lived in a one-family residence
  • What was the immigration station on the East Coast?
    Angel Island
  • Why were the Chinese and Japanese coming to America? Where were they working?
    Looking for gold; worked on the railroads
  • What happened when African Americans got to cities?
    Still faced discrimination and segregation; job competition with whites
  • Where were people from the West Indies and Mexico working?
    Farms
  • What was nativism?
    favoritism toward Native-born Americans
  • What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
    banned entry to all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials
  • What did they do in San Francisco to help transportation?
    Made street cars
  • Why were African Americans moving to cities?
    Moved to cities to escape racial violence, economic hardship, and political oppression
  • What percentage of big cities were immigrants by 1910?
    50%/half
  • What was the Gentlemen's Agreement?
    apan’s government limited emigration of unskilled workers, and San Francisco repealed the segregation order
  • Why were people coming to America from Europe?
    Needed jobs, not enough land, religious persecution
  • What was the biggest group of immigrants coming to America?
    Europeans
  • What happened at Ellis Island?
    Inspections, doctor
  • What were row houses?
    single-family dwellings that shared side walls with other houses
  • Why were immigrants settling in cities?
    Cities were cheapest and most convenient places to live; Offered jobs to unskilled workers
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