Vocabulary
A reason someone leaves their home country.
What is a push factor?
This place was the immigration station in New York.
What is Ellis Island?
This country gave the U.S. the Statue of Liberty.
This country gave the U.S. the Statue of Liberty.
People came to America for this kind of better life.
What is freedom or opportunity?
This part of your face was checked for disease at Ellis Island.
What is an eye (or What are people’s eyes)?
A person who moves to a new country to live.
What is an immigrant?
After arriving, immigrants first stopped in this room with all their bags.
What is the baggage room?
The statue holds this in her right hand.
What is a torch?
These small, crowded apartments were where many immigrants lived.
What are tenements?
The Statue of Liberty is this color.
What is green?
A very large statue.
What is a colossus?
This nickname was given to the place where families met after inspection.
What is the kissing post?
The name of the poem written on the Statue of Liberty.
What is "The New Colossus"?
This was a hard time in Ireland when food was gone.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
This word means different cultures mixing into one.
What is melting pot?
A person who is forced to leave their home because it’s unsafe.
What is a refugee?
Immigrants had to pass this test to see if they were healthy.
What is the medical exam?
This object is broken at the statue’s feet, showing freedom from control.
What are chains?
This act made rules to limit how many people could move to the U.S.
What is the Emergency Quota Act?
This island on the West Coast was like Ellis Island but for Asians.
What is Angel Island?
An object or picture that stands for an idea.
What is a symbol?
This happened if someone was sick or didn’t pass their inspection.
What is detention or being sent back?
The statue’s crown has this many points to stand for the seas and continents.
What is seven?
This act made immigration rules more fair for people everywhere.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act?
The Statue of Liberty stands on this island.
What is Liberty Island?