3.18 - U.S. Immigration Vocabulary Quiz - Makinde Adedapo | Library

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USA Patriot Act authorized for a limited period of time the admission into the United States of certain European displaced persons for permanent residence, and for other purposes after World War II.

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Ellis Island is an Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

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One of the motivating factors of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was to accomodate the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.

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An immigrant that is seeking safety from dangers that occurred in their home town

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law that changed the national quota system to limits of 170,000 immigrants per year from the Eastern Hemisphere and 120,000 per year from the Western Hemisphere

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The act of a government sending a migrant out of its country and back to the migrant's home country

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An immigrant living in the U.S.without lawful permission

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Act that prohibits discrimination against job applicants on the basis of national origin or citizenship; establishes penalties for hiring illegal aliens and requires employers to establish each employee's identity and eligibility to work

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Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Push Factor		The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people
Colonization		problems in a new country make them move there such as Available Land, Job opportunities

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The __________restricted citizenship to "any alien, being a free white person" who had been in the U.S. for two years. In effect, it left out indentured servants, slaves, and most women. This Act was passed in 

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law passed that sought to prevent further terrorist attacks by allowing greater government access to electronic communications and other information; criticized by some as violating civil liberties is called the __________This Act was passed in __________

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Law targeting undocumented people from __________ in the United States. Gave the U.S. Attorney General additional powers.

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Required all foreigners to take a literacy test to prove they could read a short passage in English. This effectively prevented people from poorer countries from entering the USA

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The Alien & Sedition Acts made it harder for an immigrant to become a citizen, allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens who were known as dangerous or who were from a hostile nation and criminalized making 'false statements' critical of the federal government