Irish "Wave"
Eastern European "Wave"
Southern European "Wave"
Immigration from China
Angel and Ellis Islands
100
The food that the Irish depended on completely
What is the potato.
100
A vicious attack on an innocent village, usually a Jewish village, often organized by the government authorities.
What is a pogrom?
100
The reason Victoria Confino's family left Kastoria.
What is fear that their sons would be taken into the army forever.
100
The condition of being poor.
What is poverty?
100
People crossed the Pacific Ocean to get here.
What is Angel Island?
200
The disease that destroyed the food crop in Ireland
What is blight?
200
A Jewish village in Eastern Europe.
What is a shtetl?
200
The war that was fought from 1914-1919.
What is World War I.
200
The two work opportunities that attracted many Chinese to the United States in the 1800s.
What are the gold mines and the railroads?
200
These are the years that Ellis Island was open.
What is 1892-1953?
300
These are what forced the Irish to give their food to the English, even when they were starving.
What are the Corn Laws?
300
Belorus, Poland, and Ukraine.
What are three parts of the Pale of Settlement?
300
When the government requires people to go into the army without a choice.
What is conscription.
300
The reason why people resented the Chinese immigrants.
What is that they were willing to work for less money and took some jobs away from other workers?
300
These are the years that Angel Island was open.
What is 1910-1943?
400
The year the famine began to drive Irish farmers from their country.
What is 1845?
400
When people are treated badly because of some quality about themselves, like their race or gender.
What is persecution?
400
When you assume that all people in a group have the same characteristics.
What is stereotyping?
400
The year the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed.
What is 1882?
400
This is the part of the number of immigrants who were sent back from Ellis Island.
What is 1or 2 out of 100?
500
This economic policy kept the government from helping the starving people of Ireland.
What is "laissez-faire."
500
The event that started waves of pogroms against the Jews in 1881.
What is the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia?
500
Two groups of Jews, from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe, respectively.
Who are Ashkenazy and Sephardic Jews?
500
The year the Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed.
What is 1943?
500
The number of people who passed through Ellis Island during its years of operation.
What is 12 million?
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