 | Term | Definition |
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naturalization |
to complete the official process for becoming a citizen |
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naturalized citizen |
becoming naturalized in the US |
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Permanent Resident |
having hold of a green card |
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Green Card |
a non permanent card that makes you a citizen after 5 years |
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Oath of allegiance |
pledge to the loyalty of America |
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Emigrate |
to leave a place, especially a native country, to go and live in another country |
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Immigrate |
to enter a new country for the purpose of settling there.To become established in a new environment. to bring people into a country and settle them as permanent residents there |
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Illegal Immigrant |
immigrant who enters a country without permission |
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Legal Immigrant |
immigrant who has permission to enter a country |
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Acculturation |
the process of holding on to older traditions while adapting to new culture |
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Assimilation |
an immigrant(usually children) becomes a part of new culture |
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Coyote |
a smuggler that illegal immigrants pay to get across the border because the smugglers know how to get past the border partol |
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nativists |
people who sought to limit immigration and preserve the country for native born white porotestants |
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Push Factors |
condition that drives people fro,m their homelands |
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Pull factors |
condition that attracts people to move to a new area |
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Pogrom |
In Eastern Europe, an organized attack on a jewish community |
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Old Immigrants (1840-1860) |
English, Irish, German, Scandinavians |
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New Immigrants (!860-1920s) |
arrived in the South and Eastern Europe. They were Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Greeks, Russians |
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Reverend Josiah Strong |
protestant minister, in 1885. |
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Immigration Restriction Act 1924 |
law that allowed people to arrived illegally in the United States before 1982 to apply for citizenship |
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