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having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.

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Acculturation is the process of cultural change and psychological change that results following meeting between cultures

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The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States.

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The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. ... The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law implemented to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States.

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The Social Gospel Movement was a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ministers, especially ones belonging to the Protestant branch of Christianity, began to tie salvation and good works together. They argued that people must emulate the life of Jesus Christ.

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A political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts.

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an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one.

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in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.

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in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town.

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a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

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A  new immigrant is someone who has recently left the land where they were born and have arrived in the country where they are going to start a new life.

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Old immigrants came to America during the 1840's they were usually Irish and German. They usually gotten into politics, and opened their own shops.

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the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.

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The melting pot is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" into a harmonious whole with a common culture or vice versa, for a homogeneous society becoming more heterogeneous through the influx of foreign elements with different cultural background with a potential creation of disharmony with the previous culture.

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an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.

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A tenement is a multi-occupancy building of any sort, and in parts of England, especially Devon and Cornwall, it refers to an outshot, or additional projecting part at the back of a terraced house, normally with its own roof.

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a system, originally determined by legislation in 1921, of limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S. each year. 2. a policy of limiting the number of minority group members in a business firm, school, etc.

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pull factors are those factors which either forcefully push people into migration or attract them.

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A push factor is forceful, and a factor which relates to the country from which a person migrates.

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come to live permanently in a foreign country.

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leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.

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Ellis Island definition. Island in the harbor of New York City, southwest of Manhattan. Note: From 1892 to 1954, it served as the prime immigration station of the country. Some twelve million immigrants passed through it during this time.

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From January 21, 1910 –November 5, 1940, Angel Island was an immigration station where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated.

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the action of making a person or thing American in character or nationality.

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to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb.