Immigrants Gaining Entrance
Where was Ellis Island located?
New York
Freedom & opportunity
What is the name of the place most immigrants lived?
Tenements
Who didn't like immigrants & why?
Americans / Immigrants were more easy to work & for less pay
Where was Angel Island located?
San Francisco, California
What are PUSH Factors?
Reasons people LEAVE the country they're from.
How were the living conditions in these buildings?
Run down & dirty
Immigrants came together to create their own what? Examples also.
Neighborhoods/ ChinaTown , Little Italy
What were immigrants greeted by at Ellis Island?
Statue of Liberty
What are Pull Factors?
Reasons people MOVE TO a new country.
Most immigrants worked where?
Factories
Immigrants had different what from Americans?
Traditions & Cultures
Which Island had more harder questioning?
Angel Island
Examples of PUSH factors
Bad government, Escaped wars, religous/political beliefs, poor, limited resources
What did each floor of families have to share?
Sink
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A law to prevent Chinese workers from entering the country for 10 years.
What did immigrants go through while coming through the ports?
Questioning & Medical Exams
Examples of PULL Factors
Better life, religious/political freedom, work, land of opportunity,
What did some immigrants use their apartments for?
Work for money
Who mostly came from Ellis Island?
Who mostly came from Angel Island?
Ellis- Europe, Canda, Mexico
Angel- China, Korea, Japan, Phillipeans