Vocabulary
War, lack of jobs for food and homes, fear and lack of freedom to practice their religion, problems with the government are all examples of __________ factors and why people would leave their homelands.
Push
These are people who are born in another country and has earned the same rights a citizens born in the United States
Naturalized Citizens
Ships with immigrants would dock here in New York City.
Ellis Island
Asian immigrants were pulled to the United States with the promise of....
The Golden Mountain
This a a document made up of the first ten amendments to the Constitution. These are our Rights.
Bill of Rights
These are people who move from one country to another country in hope to have a better life.
Immigrants
This President gave huge amounts of government-controlled land to homesteaders.
President Lincoln
This symbolized freedom and hope.
Statue of Liberty
This country is known as the "land of opportunity"
United States
Be eighteen years old, live in the US for at least 5 years, promise to obey the laws, know certain facts about the US history and the Constitution, understand how the government works, take a test, participate in a special ceremony where you promise to be loyal to your new country.
This lays the foundation for the laws and government of the United States.
The Constitution of the United States
Charles Steinmetz was a mathematician and engineer from ____________ and contributed to the United States with his many ___________.
Germany, inventions
Ships with Asian immigrants would dock here in California
Angel Island
These were the first people to live in America.
Native Americans
Opportunity for a better life, more job opportunities, possibility of wealth (gold), welcoming ethnic neighborhoods
Immigrants discovered that some people from outside their community could often be ____________.
hostile
James Madison
Homesteaders moved here to live and farm. After only 5 years, they could own 160 acres of land for only $18.
American Midwest, Wisconsin, Minnesota
Families where pushed out of this country because of the Potato Blight.
Ireland
These immigrants moved her in search for the "Golden Mountain".
Chinese immigrants or Asian Immigrants
These are beliefs and ways of doing things that have been long established.
customs
The American government gives this group of people certain rights, and in return they have certain responsibilities.
US Citizen
This is where the President of the United States lives.
White House in Washington DC
Name one country from Europe that we discussed were many immigrants came from.
Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Ireland
I am a Latin phrase that means "out of many, one"
e pluribus unum