The New Immigrants

An update of the 1965 Immigration Act and outlawed the hiring of undocumented immigrants, but offered legal status to aliens who had lived in the U.S. for five years.

The act of making people obey laws and rules.

To adopt or accept.

The government office of the Commerce Department responsible for counting the population.

Postponed or delayed.

An official order telling someone to leave a country; expulsion.

Things that cause difficulty or suffering.

Without legal papers.

Shelter, a sacred place; any place of refuge.

An immigrant receiving station that opened in New York 1892, where immigrants were given a medical examination and only allowed in if they were healthy

The immigration station on the west coast where Asian immigrants, mostly Chinese gained admission to the U.S. at San Francisco Bay. Questioning and conditions at Angel Island were much harsher than Ellis Island in New York.

The mixing of cultures, ideas, and peoples that has changed the American nation.

The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another.

(1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.

People who had come to the US after the 1880s from southern and eastern Europe