general immigration
Factors that make you WANT TO MOVE to a new country?
Money, Freedoms, Jobs, Better life
Where did all immigrate to?
America
Where did people immigrate from?
Almost anywhere
on average how were immigrants paid?
Are they paid: a lot or little
little
When did Marcus Eli Ravage immigrate to America, and at what age?
1900 at the age of sixteen
Factors that make you WANT TO LEAVE a country
War, Poverty,Oppression
Main place where immigrants immigrated to
What is Ellis island? 🏝️
Main people that immigrated (Against their will)
African Americans
how did immigrants immigrate.
on a boat 🚢
Leonards mother told him to watch for the butterfly. Why did she do this and what was the meaning of the butterfly?
When the butterfly entered the window they would have news of his father / news that his father was sending for them.
Once Immigrants arrived in America, what was the first thing they had to do after leaving the boat.
Had to go through checks
Secondary place where immigrants immigrated to
What is angel island?
Who immigrated and why?
Poor / oppressed people with no job / Opportunities
What class on a boat were located on the lower decks and had less room? Usual the poorest.
3rd class
What type of unfair rules did the Jews suffer because of their religion?
Were not permitted to own or rent land
Students were forced out of schools
What were the Checks that Immigrants had to go through after leaving the boat.
1. Medical check
2. Background check
Where did most immigrants come from?
What is Europe?
Do people WHO ARE HAPPY with their life immigrate because of need?
No
What class on a boat had plenty of room and got off the boat first? Most healthy and wealthy.
First class
What did Marcus Eli Ravage convince his family to do in order to raise the money for him to go to America?
Sell the family cow
What was the year that immigration started booming
Late 1800s or 1880
Where else did immigration spiked after Europe
Latin America
Where do immigrants like to live?
Name two reasons why Immigrants like to live like this.
Immigrants like to live together / around each other
1. Like to live around the same culture
2. Like to live around people who speak the same language.
Between 1880 - 1919 Historians estimate how many people came to the United States?
23 million
"... home was something from which one never parted, even as the tree never parts from the earth....Now there was to be a complete break.... the native earth would chain me no more."
Who is responsible for this short Quote?
Maurice Hindus