Why they left to come to America
This country by the 1800s had 100s of anti-Jewish laws.
What is Russia?
They traveled across Europe on these.
What is trains?
They taveled by this to Ellis Island.
What are crowded barges?
Jewish immigrants lived in these.
What are cheap crowded tenements?
Jews faced this from most Americans.
What is prejudice and discrimination?
The Jewish fled to America to escape this.
What is persecution?
Not all Jewish immigrants were in this and could travel comfortably.
What is poverty?
They waited for hours for this.
What is the examination of doctors and inspectors?
This neighborhood in New York became the most densly populated with Jewish immigrants.
What is the Lower East Side?
Jews weren't excepted in these.
What were schools and clubs?
He was assassinated in 1881, and jew wer blamd although the assassin wasn't Jewish.
Who was Czar Alexander the 2nd?
The Jewish immigrants travelled across th Atlantic Ocean on these.
What is cramped steamboats?
The short amount of time they spent at Ellis Island.
What is a day.
Jewish immigrants worked as these.
What were cobblers, butchers, carpenters, and watchmakers?
Jobs weren't excepting workers who weren't this.
What is christian.
For 30 years they attacked Jews; burning, looting, and killing throughout their villages.
Who were angry Russians.
Jews worked as these selling coal and secondhand clothes.
What were street vendors.
They traveled first to America to make money for families.
Who were Jewish fathers?
Jews established these to make America more like home.
What were shops, news papers, religious schools, and synagogues?