ancestors

freedom

immigrants

immigrate

push and pull factors

center

interpreter

liberty

opportunity

customs

ethnic

hostile

newcomers

traditional

afford

blight

emigrated

characters

exhausting

honor

responsibilities

wages

homestead

legally

officially

support

descendants

famine

settlers

citizen

naturalized citizen

principles

rights

amendments

the Bill of Rights

consent

the Constitution

disagreements

guaranteed

jury

refugees

urbanization

ethnic groups

Ellis Island

Angel Island

suburbs

The relatives who came before a person, their parents, and their
grandparents.

Independence; the ability to choose how to live one’s life.

People who leave their home country to live in a new country.

To enter and make a home in a new country or region.

The reasons that drive people away from something and
draw people toward something else.

A place where a particular activity or work is done.

A person who turns speech from one language into another language.

Freedom

A chance, a possibility

Established, or traditional, ways of doing things.

Characteristics of a particular group of people who share a common language and national, religious, or cultural customs.

Unkind or unwelcoming

People who are new to a place or a group

Customary or long-established; describes something that has been done in the same way over a long period of time.

To have enough of something, especially money or time, available to buy or do something.

A sudden and quick death of plants or crops because of a disease.

Left a country or region to settle in another.

Symbols used in a system of writing.

Extremely tiring

To treat someone with respect or show respect toward someone.

Things you are in charge of or are depended on to care for.

The money you give someone for doing work.

A farmhouse or other kind of house and the surrounding buildings and land.

Allowed by law.

Approved of by someone in charge.

To be loyal to or to encourage someone or something.

People that are related to earlier ancestors.

A great shortage of food

People who make their homes in a new area or country.

A person who has rights given to them by a country’s government and has responsibilities that go along with those rights.

A person born in another country who earns the same rights as native citizens of a different country.

General beliefs or rules

Freedoms belonging to a person that the government cannot, and should not, take away.

Changes, improvements

A document that contains additions to the Constitution which limit the power of the government.

Approval or permission

A document that lays down the foundation for the laws of the United States and explains how the U.S. government works.

Arguments or differences of opinion

Promised that something will be done or that a person will receive something; made certain.

A group of people chosen from the public to listen to facts during a trial in order to decide whether a person on trial is guilty or not guilty.

People who flee from their home country to a foreign country for safety.

A population shift from rural to urban areas.

Minorities that speak different languages or follow different customs from those of most people.

Where immigrants settled in the east in the 1900s.

Where immigrants settled in the west in the 1900s

Residential areas that spring up outside city centers.