Vocabulary
This was a crowded apartment building where many immigrants first lived with their families once they got to the United States.
What was a tenement?
This is how most Europeans made a living between 1750 and 1850.
What was farming?
These countries countributed the most immigrants to America.
What were Holland, England, and Germany?
This were the type of jobs available to most New Immigrants.
What was factory and construction jobs?
This was a port of entry to the United States for many Asian immigrants.
What was Angel Island?
This is someone who is related to a person or a group of people who lived in the past.
What is a descendent?
This was when people had the desire for people to leave their countries and move to the United States.
What was American fever?
This is what happened in Ireland to get many people to move here.
What was the potato blight?
This is where immigrants from China and Japan settled in the United States.
Where is the west?
This where the Statue of Liberty stands.
Where is New York Harbor?
This is a statue that is larger than life-size.
What is colossus?
This transportation made it easier to move to America.
What were large steamships?
This was the way immigrants traveled to the United States at first.
What were freight ships?
This where most immigrants settle after the Civil War.
What are cities?
This country gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States.
What is France?
This is the unfair treatment of a person or a group because of beliefs about that group of people.
What is discrimination?
This was the neighborhood in New York City that was known to be very cramped, dangerous, and dirty.
What was Five Points?
This was the term used since many passengers got sick or died during the passage to the United States.
What were "coffin ships?"
This was the country in which all immigrants were banned from entering the United States in 1882.
What was China?
This was a stop in the United States for most European immigrants after 1892.
What was Ellis Island?
This is a government in which citizens elect people to rule for them. This is also a republic.
What is a representative government?
This is the city where most tenements were located.
What is New York City?
This was the religion of most immigrants in the Old Immigration.
What was Protestant?
These were the children of foreign born parents.
What were second-generation?
This means "Out of many. One."
What is e pluribus unum?