Ellis Island
What state is Ellis Island in?
New York
Who were the main group of people who traveled to Angel Island?
The Chinese
What was the main job people had when moving to Iowa?
Farming or agriculture
What is the card that grants you temporary access to the US?
A Visa card
What did immigrants see when pulling into New York Harbour from their ship
The Statue of Liberty
How many years did the Chinese Exclusion Act last and prevent Chinese people to come to the US?
10 years
What was the main group of immigrants that traveled to Iowa?
Germans
What is a green card?
A card that grants citizenship to the US
How many people came through Ellis Island?
12 Million
What did most of the Chinese do when they came over to the US?
Why did Latino people move over the US?
Not enough jobs, wanted farmland
What is a alien?
Someone that comes from another country legally
What are some push/pull factors that made European immigrants move to the US?
Push: Over flowing population, hunger, lack of jobs, food shortages, religous persection, crop failures, scarcity of arable farmland
Pull: Life in a free and democratic society, natural resources, jobs, ample farmland, personal communications, "America Letters"
What did people from China call California after they moved there?
Gold Mountain
What was the main reason that German people wanted to move over to the US?
After failing to over take one of the small "states" in Germany, they moved to the US to seek freedom
Be born here, go through the naturalization process, marry a US citizen, parents be US citizens, work for someone in the US
How much did the steamship improve the speed for immigrants to get to the US?
Went from a 3 month journey to 2 weeks
Push: They didn't have enough jobs and they needed money when they were to go home
Pull: There were more jobs available and more space to live and have a family
Who was the leader of Germany in the 1860's that forced many Germans to war or to leave?
Otto von Bismarck
What is a person that illegally comes to the US?
An illegal immigrant