Colonial to 1820 ("First Immigrants")
This religious group fled persecution under King James I and settled in New England.
Who are the Puritans?
This major 1840s famine drove millions of Irish to the United States.
What is the Potato Famine?
Most immigrants during this period entered the U.S. through this processing center.
What is Ellis Island?
In modern times, most immigrants have come from Latin America and this continent.
What is Asia?
This author called America “the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.”
Who is Thomas Paine?
These German immigrants, fleeing the Revolutions of 1848, were known by this nickname.
Who are the Forty-Eighters?
New immigrants were mostly from these two regions of Europe.
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
This country has sent the largest number of immigrants from Latin America in recent decades.
What is Mexico?
In the first U.S. census, this was the population.
What is 3.9 million?
This gold-filled event drew many Asian and European immigrants westward.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This term means fear of foreigners and often fueled anti-immigrant policies.
What is xenophobia?
This term refers to pride in one’s country and was on the rise during periods of immigration backlash.
What is nationalism?
Immigration slowed due to this early 1800s conflict with Great Britain.
What is the War of 1812?
Many early Italian immigrants came from this region of Italy.
What is southern Italy (or rural areas)?
This 1882 law banned Chinese laborers from entering the U.S.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Modern immigrants often seek to achieve this idealized version of success in the U.S.
What is the American Dream?
Although Elizabeth I made England Protestant, this monarch tolerated Catholic ritual, causing tension.
Who is James I?
The Irish fled famine, while these immigrants fled political turmoil and revolution.
Who are the Germans?
These 1920s laws favored Western Europeans while restricting others.
What are the Quota Acts?
This broad term describes the varied cultures and backgrounds immigrants bring to the U.S. today.
What is America’s newest cultures (or cultural diversity)?