Immigrants All!
What occurred during the Great Atlantic Migration?
What is: Between 1820 and 1980 37 million people left Europe and immigrated to North America.
During which time period did the greatest number of Europeans immigrate to the United States?
What is: 1880 to 1920
What date did thousands of Chinese head to California?
What is: 1849?
Which Country did nearly 5 million Syrain refugees flee in the 2010s?
What is they fled to Turkey Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq?
What is the definition of Emigrant?
What is: a person who leaves one country to move permanently to another?
What is the name of the building that immigrants had to go through to be checked in, in New York? What is the name of the island that people checked in ,in California?
What is: Ellis Island?
What is: Angel Island?
Why did many Americans support the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What is: To protect jobs for U.S. citizens?
What time period was a law passed that required immigrants to be able to read?
What is: 1917?
How has Brazil become one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world?
What is: Its population includes a multi-ethnic combination of indigenous people, Africans, Europeans, and Asians?
What is the definition of an immigrant?
What is: someone who move into a new country?
What is one of the oldest known migrations?
What is: People migrating from Asia to the Americas 12,000 or more years ago?
What caused an increase in the number of European immigrants to the United States in the early 19th century?
What is: Population growth in Europe?
What time period did the United States open a new immigration center in New York Bay?
What is 1892?
Which country have many people from the United States emigrated to?
What is: Israel, and Liberia?
What is the definition of tenement?
What is: A crowded multi-family apartment building?
What was the first written record of a mass migration?
What is: The Jewish people leaving Egypt to find the Promise land?
Which group was most affected by the United States' first national immigration law?
What is: Criminals?
What time period was a law passed that allowed small numbers of Asians to immigrate again?
What is 1952?
People from which ethnic group moved to Wisconsin and Minnesota? Why?
What is: Scandinavians moved to Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Why: Because the climate reminded them of home
What is the definition of refugee?
What is Someone left homeless by war or persecution?
What does the word migration come from?
What is: From the Latin word migrate, which means to move from one place to another?
Which countries were the places of birth for the first immigrants to the Americas?
What is: England, France, and Spain?
From the time period of 1800s to 1900s why was it a difficult decision for many Europeans to immigrate to the United States?
What is: They faced many challenges of finding a job, and a place to live as well as learning a new language.
What factors led to high immigration from the Caribbean and from Central and South America between 1960 and 1979?
What is: Revolutions and economic instability brought many immigrants from these areas to the United States.
What is the definition of a Ethnic group?
What is : A group of people who share a common language , religion, or descent?