7th grade immigration Flashcards
(34 cards)
political push factors of immigration
economic troubles, war, persecution
enviromental push factors
Chernobyl, droughts, potato famine
economic push factors
poor jobs want better luck
family pull factors
unite divided families
education pull factors
attend better schools and college
quality-of-life pull factors
better jobs, “American dream”, place of worship
economic impacts (jobs) of immigration
labor (farming, war, roads)
economic impacts (taxes) of immigration
benefit locally (schools, health clinics) or nationally (government)
cultural impacts of immigration to the united states
new food and holidays
cultural diffusion
spreading and mixing of cultures
brain drain
loss of well-educated people from immigrating
economic impacts of leaving homelands
brain drain, remmitances
immigrant
a person who moves to a new country
emigrant
a person who moves from a country
remittances
money sent back to one’s homeland
social impacts of leaving homelands
divided families, families use remittances
ellis island
immigrant processing center
isle of hope, isle of tears
a nickname of Ellis island
legal detainees
a person, detained at Ellis Island, for a crime
medical detainees
a person, detained at Ellis Island, for an illness
board of special inquiry
a group of judges who decide the detainee’s fate
manifest
a list of passengers
how many questions were asked at Ellis island?
29
first stop at Ellis island
the passage
