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US Immigration

Push and pull factors over time

PushWhich factors in their homeland made people leave

Which qualities in the new continent inspired a new home

Pull

http://www.jaha.org/edu/discovery_center/push-pull/chart_w_events.html

Green cards

Becoming Naturalized

Illegal immigration

First Immigration Wave

Illegal immigration ?

European settlements

Second Immigration Wave

Gold Rush

Homestead Act

“Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe freeThe wretched refuse of your teeming shoreSend these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to meI lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

Ellis Island

Industrialization

Third Immigration Wave

Urbanization

Cultural enclaves

Immigration Restrictions

Internment Camps

Fourth Immigration Wave

Economic impact

Alabama Immigration Law

"There are some sweet potato farmers in this state it's really going to hurt. I don't know how they're going to get their crops out,"

Alabama farmer

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