Ellis Island
This iconic immigration station is located in New York Harbor, near the Statue of Liberty.
What is Ellis Island?
This immigration station, located in San Francisco Bay, primarily processed immigrants from Asia.
What is Angel Island?
This is the name of a person who came to live in a country from some other place:
What is immigrant?
This term describes the extreme lack of food that drove many people to leave their home countries.
What is famine?
This is the continent where most immigrants came to during this time:
What is North America?
This continent is where most of the immigrants processed through Ellis Island were from:
What is Europe?
This continent is where most of the immigrants processed through Angel Island were from:
What is Asia?
Ethnic neighborhoods helped immigrants find this, which is crucial for survival in a new country.
What are jobs?
The opportunity to own this was a key reason many immigrants were attracted to the U.S. during the 1800s and 1900s.
What is land?
What was the purpose of medical inspections?
The medical inspections made sure that immigrants were healthy and didn’t have diseases that could spread to others in the United States.
This is the estimated number of immigrants coming through Ellis Island?
What is 12 million?
These laws caused inspections at Angel Island to be more intense and longer than those at Ellis Island.
What were the Chinese Exclusion Acts?
These were crowded apartment building where many poor immigrant families lived.
What are tenements?
This promise of better treatment made the U.S. appealing to those escaping prejudice.
What is freedom of religion?
This is the state where the Rock Springs Massacre occurred:
What is Wyoming?
These centuries were when immigrants came through Ellis Island
What are the Nineteenth & Twentieth centuries
This violent event in 1885, in Wyoming, highlighted the racism and violence faced by Chinese migrants.
What was the Rock Springs Massacre?
A 19th century American labor union that fought for workers' rights and better working conditions
What are Knights of Labor?
This type of persecution forced many people to flee their countries in search of freedom to practice their faith.
What is religious persecution?
Immigrants gave Ellis Island this nickname because some people were not allowed to enter the U.S. after inspections.
What is the Island of Tears?
This is the percent of Chinese immigrants that came through Angel Island:
What is 97%?
These are people who come from the same country, who are of the same race, or who have a common way of life
What are ethnic groups?
This is a type of push factor that involves war within a country:
What is revolution?
Name three of the biggest problems faced by people living in tenement housing.
What are overcrowding, poor sanitation, lack of light, or diseases?