People
Ethnic group
What immigration station saw 12 million people pass through?
Ellis Island
Someone who moves to a new country to live their permanently.
Immigrant
Immigrant children were Americanized by learning what in school?
Language, customs, and history of their new country
From which country did about 300,000 people arrive on the West Coast of America between 1850-1882?
China
In which three places did immigrants often work?
Mines, factories, steel mills
What does a person need to live in the country as a permanent resident?
Visa
About how many immigrants who arrived in New York City stayed there?
About 1 in 3
This was the only time that Congress passed a law to stop an ethnic group from immigrating to the U.S.
Chinese Exclusion Act
2 million Jewish people were forced to leave their country because of these.
Russian Pogroms
Which country was created after World War II as a homeland for Jewish people?
Israel
France gifted what monument to the U.S.?
Statue of Liberty
1 million people left this country because of a crop failure.
Ireland
Over which ocean would Europeans have traveled?
Atlantic Ocean
To pay off their passage to the U.S. a person might become an ____________ .
indentured servant