Vocabulary
a limit based on numbers or proportions, such as the proportion of a country's population allowed to immigrate to the US
What is quota?
Italians immigrated to America to escape ...
What is poverty? I will also accept what is overpopulation.
The first Chinese immigrants traveled to California to look for what and help build what?
What is gold and the transcontinental railroad?
This country treated Jewish people poorly, discriminated against them, and restricted their rights.
What is Russia?
Upon arrival, immigrants had to go through what at both immigration stations.
What are inspections? I will also accept tests.
a person who flees his or her home or country to escape war, persecution, or other dangers
What is refugee?
Italian immigrant's formed mostly Italian neighborhoods called _____.
What are Little Italy's?
Most Chinese immigrant opened this type of shop.
What is a laundromat?
The number of Jewish people who immigrated to the US.
What is 2.4 million?
Angel Island is located where?
What is San Fransisco Bay?
the process by which immigrants or other newcomers acquire the attitudes, behaviors, and cultural patterns of the society around them
What is assimilation?
_______ refers to young men who would travel to America to earn money then return home.
What are "birds of passage"?
This event destroyed many existing birth records on file in San Fransisco.
The earthquake of 1906.
Before crossing over seas, Jewish immigrants had to first travel across Europe by what?
What is train?
What percent of immigrants were denied from Ellis Island? what about Angel Island?
What is 2% and 33%?
an organized and violent persecution of a minority group
What is pogrom?
The reasons Italians were discriminated against.
What is poor and uneducated?
This act in 1882 denied Chinese immigrants citizenship and further passage into the US.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Jewish people were typically very educated. Unfortunately they were still discriminated against and were not allowed to work these jobs.
What is doctor or lawyer?
What is "Island of Tears"?
an attitude of resentment and superiority toward foreign-born people
What is nativisim?
Italian families valued what above all else?
What is family closeness?
To pass the time being detained on Angel Island, Chinese immigrants would do this on the walls of their "rooms".
What is write poetry?
Half of all Jewish immigrants found jobs working where?
What are garment facotries?
The first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island was...
What is a 15 year old girl?