For the First Time
Pull Factors
Interesting Details
Dates
Push Factors
100
This woman immigrated around 1965 and tried pizza for the very first time.
Who is Rosemarie Wong?
100
Both Tricia Ting, Wai Chi Pon, and Lena Rappaport immigrated for a similar reason.
What is for marriage/ to be with the man she loved?
100
Captain Karl Bjornson had this interesting way of getting to America.
What is sailing himself to America?
100
Tricia Ting emigrated from Brazil in this year.
What is 2000?
100
Morris Cohen, Ruth Wiener, and Marina Gafanovich shared this push factor for emigrating.
What is religious persecution?
200
When she came to the U.S.A, Jennie Povich got her very first job as this.
What is a seamstress?
200
Raquel Cañadas, Jihye Whang, Kanta, Hassan Kaous, Devendara Sharma, and Rosemarie Wong all immigrated to the U.S because of this same pull factor.
What is better education?
200
A Cuban grandmother went to this country for political reasons before she came to the USA
What is Spain?
200
Charlie's great great grandmother came to New York in this year and never saw her family again.
What is 1900?
200
The reason why Joseph V. McKee emigrated from Scotland.
What is the potato famine?
300
This woman immigrated in 1980 and tried two new foods; she only liked one.
Who is Jihye Whang?
300
Thomas Rogers came to the USA on the Mayflower because of this pull factor.
What is religious freedom/to practice the religion he wanted?
300
What three places did Wai Chi POn stop after leaving Hong Kong in 1966?
What is the Honolulu, Los Angeles, and San Francisco?
300
Both Hassan Kaous and Terry Remirez came to America in this year.
What is 1995?
300
Rosemarie Wong left Guyana for this reason.
What is corrupt government?
400
This Filipina tried pizza for the first time in the USA.
Who is Terry Remirez?
400
Jacob S. Gubelmann immigrated to the US in 1881 for this reason.
What is his father's job as a minister for the German Baptist Church in Philadelphia?
400
Devendra Sharma was successful once he came to America because of this interesting detail.
What is he created his own company called TTA?
400
Ruth Wiener left her pet goat behind in Russia to come to America in this year?
What is 1915?
400
Max Fortunov left his home country of Ukraine for this reason.
What is the Russian Civil War?
500
This was Marina Gafanovich's first impression of America?
What is getting an amazing meal on the plane?
500
Watching these made Raquel Cañadas want to come to the United States.
What is holiday movies?
500
This allowed Hassan Kaous to come to the U.S.A
What is a Diversity Immigrant Visa?
500
Morris Cohen came to America in this year and fought in World War I, which started seven years after he arrived.
What is 1907?
500
Kanta left India in 2001 because of this push factor.
What is no job/very poor?
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