This was the reason why in 1620 a group of about 100 people known as the Pilgrims immigrated to America from Europe.
What is they were fleeing from religious persicution
100
This was what immigrants would do to pass time while journeying to America.
What is sing, talk, dance, or play cards
100
This is what an anti-immigration organization called the “Know-nothings” attempted to do in the 1850’s.
What is attempt to stop American immigration
100
This is the type of job that Chinese immigrants in the US commonly performed through the 1800’s to the early 1900’s.
What is labor intensive duties
100
This was what the Pilgrims succeeded in doing with the help of the Native Americans in America.
What is Farming
200
This was the reason why in 1619, 20 Africans were forced to immigrate to Jamestown Virginia.
What is Slavery.
200
This is where first and second class passengers on immigrant steamships form Ellis Island were brought directly to.
What is New York
200
This is the effect of congress passing the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
What is it stopped the Chinese community from growing in size.
200
In 1683 this is the town that 13 first generation German immigrant families eventually formed in America.
What is Germantown
200
This was the type of music African-American slaves brought to America.
What is Jazz
300
This was the reason why 25,000 Asian immigrants immigrated to America in the mid 1800’s.
What is The California Gold Rush.
300
This is where the steerage was located on an immigrant steamship.
What is the lower decks
300
This is why the U.S government made Ellis Island an official immigration station.
What is because immigration in the U.S was largely growing in size.
300
This is the reason why Chinese immigrants formed the first types of Chinatown in America.
What is to protect each other from violent anti-American citizens
300
In 1855 this was what German immigrants improved in America.
What is Education
400
This was what caused the Irish potato crop failure during the mid 19th century.
What is a potato disease called Blight
400
This is what doctors often performed on immigrants because of sicknesses and diseases before they went onto boats to got to Ellis Island.
What is Disinfestations and vaccinations
400
This is the year congress banned slavery in America.
What is 1808
400
These are the jobs that Irish women usually performed upon arriving to America.
What is being servants or domestic workers
400
This is the year Chinese immigrant laborers in America completed the Transcontinental railroad.
What is 1868
500
Between 1880 and 1920 this was the number of Irish immigrants that immigrated to America because of poverty in rural areas.
What is 4 million
500
This was one of the questions immigrants were asked before they were allowed to enter the boats that ferried them to Ellis Island.
What is their name, age, occupation, nationality or gender
500
This is the number of German immigrants that traveled to the American mid-west and settled down to buy farms or live in cities like Milwaukee, St Louis and Cincinnati in the 19th century.
What is 5 million
500
This is the reason why many Irish-American immigrants between the 1800’s through the early 1900's faced diseases and sicknesses in America.
What is bceauase of crowded and unsanitary living conditions
500
In 1860, this was the number of American people who were Catholic, the religion that Irish immigrants brought to America.