Early Immigration
Jamestown was significant because...
It is the first permanent English Settlement in the U.S
The Imigration Quota Act of 1924 reduced immigrants from where?
Eastern and Southern Europe
What is the purpose that Ellis Island served?
process immigrants
Belief that those already in America are better than immigrants
nativism
Largest continent by land area
Asia
Many puritans moved from England to...
Massachusetts
The 1986 Immigration Reform Act granted “amnesty” to what group?
unauthorized/illegal immigrants
Name one task immigrants had to complete at Ellis Island
medical inspection
paperwork
interviewed
Push factor vs. pull factor
Push- reason people leave their country
Pull- reasons people move to a country
how many legs does a lobster have
10
This group of immigrants, arriving in the 1800s, came to the United States due to a potato famine
The Irish
Which president signed the 1986 Immigration Reform Act?
Ronald Reagan
What was the Bracero Prpgram designed to do?
worker who came to America in exhange for passage
indentured slave
What year did students start coming to Sandburg
1954
- better jobs
- being forced
- famine
The Gentleman's Agreement was an understanding with what country?
Japan
the main entry point for immigrants coming from Asia
Angel Island
name of the cheap, crowded apartments where most immigrants lived in American cities
tenement housing
Riddle:
what comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
the letter M
Which immigrant group faced the Chinese Exclusion Act, and why?
Chinese and because there was job competition with Americans
This U.S. law ended the national-origin quota system and allowed more immigrants from Asia, Africa, and Latin America to enter the United States
Immigration Act of 1965
This program forced thousands of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants to leave the U.S during Great Depression
Mexican Repatriation Program
Define The Middle Passage
the name of the boat that brought African slaves to America
Riddle:
What starts with an "E" and only has one letter in it?
An envelope