Immigrants and the US
How many people where there in Ellis island during 1865 to 1920?
Over 30 million people.
"A lot of immigrants came to America and it started to become a problem."
Choose:
A. True
B. False
C. 67 and 41
A. True
Where did immigrants come from during the second wave?
Poland, Russia, Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Greece.
What transportation did immigrants come on to get to the US?
They came on a ship.
Where did immigrants come from during the first wave?
Ireland, Germany, The U.K. (Great Britain), Finland, Sweden, and Norway.
Why did immigrants leave there homelands?
A. Freedom
B. opportunity
C. Prejudice, violence, and oppression back at homeland
D. All of the above
D. All of the above
Why did immigrants come to America?
Immigrants came to America for freedom, and opportunity, and because back in their home country, they suffered prejudice and many other factors.
Name 2 reasons of what immigrants faced while in the US.
Immigrants faced jobs becoming harder to find because of so many people and large families sharing one small apartment.
What are the two islands that immigrants going to the U.S. checked in from?
New York's Ellis Island and San fransico's Angel Island
What did immigrants start to do to help make jobs easier to find? Name 1 person that helped change American life.
Andrew Carnegie, and other immigrants started thousands of small businesses and large ones to help change Amercan life.