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
Immigration		The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people
Ellis Island		problems in a new country make them move there such as Available Land, Job opportunities
Push Factor		Migration to a new location
Pull Factor		Problem in their country makes them move out, such as Poverty, Religon, famine, Political prosecution
Colonization		Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

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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