Vocabulary
True or False:
If you cheer and clap for a team, are you showing support?
True
The reasons that draw people toward something else
Pull Factor
Immigration center located on the East Coast of the United States
Ellis Island
East or West coast?
Where is Angel Island located?
West Coast, California
A person who was born in a country and moves to a new country
Immigrant
The reasons that drive people away from something
Push Factors
Immigration center located on the West Coast of the United States
Angel Island
If you lived in the city, you most likely worked where?
Factory
True or False:
Would a new idea that no one has ever tried be traditional idea?
The major push factor for Irish immigrants
The potato blight
The first thing many immigrants saw whose ships came through New York Harbor to America
The Statue of Liberty
The motto of the United States
(Hint: it means out of many, one)
e pluribus unum
To leave a country or region to settle in another
Emigrate
The pull factor that brought many Chinese immigrants to the U.S.
Gold Mountain
A German engineer who immigrated to the United States to avoid being arrested
Charles Steinmetz
If you lived in the Midwest, you most likely worked as what?
A farmer
What is an immigrant?
Someone who leaves their home country to settle and live in a new country or region
The United States is known by this name because of the many pull factors that attracted immigrants
The Land of Opportunity
Many Americans and immigrants moved to this region of the U.S. to own their own land.
The Midwest
Why is "out of many, one" a good motto for the U.S.?
The United States is a country made up of many different immigrants who have come together to form one nation