Applied English for History I
Asian Immigration ** Vocabulary from Thursday's lecture in History class
Last name __________________ First name _________________
| truck farming | farming and then selling the products from the back of a small truck |
| picture bride | a women who marries after only seeing a photo of the man or after the man seeing only a photo of her |
| ambivalence | having both positive and negative feeling about something; being unsure of how one thinks |
| assimilate | to become more like the people around you; the process of an immigrate becoming more like the citizen of his or her new country |
| civil rights | for example, the right to vote, the right to privacy, the right to equal protection, etc. |
| naturalization | becoming a citizen of the U.S. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) |
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| propaganda | information that influences peoples' opinions; often emphasizes one side of an issue without discussing the other side |
| Immigration Act of 1924 | limited immigration to the U.S. to165,000 each year and to 2% of the number of foreign residents from another country already in the U.S. in 1890 (for example, if there were 20,000 Irish in the U.S. in 1890, then 2% of 20,000, or 400 Irish could come each year after 1924 |
| Alien Land Law | restricted land ownership |