Ellis Island
Where was Ellis Island located?
What is the New York Harbor
Angel Island primarily excluded immigrants from this country.
What is China?
The main job people had in Iowa
What is agraculture?
This is the process through which a person who was born in another country can become a citizen of the United States.
What is naturalization?
This building on Ellis Island, once used for processing immigrants
What is the Ellis Island Immigration Station?
Where Angle Island was located.
What is California
The reason the Jewish came to Iowa.
What is Religous Freedom?
This legal document, often required for naturalization, proves a person’s ability to speak, read, and write in English.
What is the U.S. citizenship test?
U.S. government passed this act, which placed restrictions on immigration and required immigrants to pass a literacy test before entering through Ellis Island.
What is the Immigration Act?
his 1882 law, which severely restricted immigration from China, was one of the key reasons that led to the creation of an immigration station on Angel Island, where Chinese immigrants were detained and questioned for long periods of time.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The reason the Dutch came to Iowa
What is religious freedom?
This U.S. constitutional amendment grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This was the peak year for immigration through Ellis Island, when over 1 million people were processed.
What is 1907?
What was a unique form of expression created by Chinese immigrants during their detention at Angel Island?
What are poems carved into the walls?
The reason African immigrants came to Iowa
What is the danger in their home country?
This principle asserts that anyone born in the U.S. is automatically a U.S. citizen, regardless of their parents' nationality or immigration status.
What is birthright citizenship?
Term for inspection of potential immigrants.
What is Medical/ Legal Inspection
Which group of people were primarily processed at Angel Island during the early 1900s?
Who are Asian immigrants, especially Chinese?
The year African Immigrants started to come to Iowa
1838
What is the process called when a U.S. citizen gives up their citizenship, often due to living in another country or disagreeing with the government?
What is renunciation of citizenship?