Coming to America
The island where many immigrants were processed before entering the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
These were crowded and unsafe apartments that most immigrants lived in when settling in America.
What are tenements?
The act of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
What is immigration?
The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or group.
What is culture?
This wave of immigrants were helpful in building the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is Chinese immigration?
This is the state where Ellis Island is located.
What is New York?
The process of becoming part of a new culture and society.
What is assimilation?
The act of moving from one's own country to live permanently in another.
What is emigration?
This event attracted Chinese immigrants to the United States.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This was the peak year of immigration (1.3 million immigrants in one year).
What is 1907?
This symbol of America and freedom is the first things arriving immigrants would see as they sailed into Ellis Island.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
A place or situation where people of different cultures, races, or religions come together and mix, creating a new and blended society.
What is a "melting pot"?
A reason that forces people to leave their home country, such as war, poverty, or natural disasters.
Poverty and religious discrimination are examples of this.
What are push factors?
The majority of Americans in 1776 either came from these countries or were descendents of immigrants from this country.
What are the British Isles?
This is how many immigrants were processed at Ellis Island during the roughly 60 years it was open.
What is 12 million?
A famous disaster where workers, mostly immigrant women, died due to unsafe conditions of their work environment.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
A reason that attracts people to a new country, such as freedom, better jobs, or a more stable government.
What is a pull factor?
This was an advertisement for cheap land in the United States and it pulled immigrants to move to the US.
What is the Homestead Act?
This was an event in Ireland that caused mass starvation and nearly 2 million Irish to immigrate to the United States.
What is the Great Potato Famine?
This is where 3rd class passengers would stay when aboard steamships across the Atlantic.
What is the "steerage" section?
The belief that anyone in the United States can achieve success and prosperity through hard work and determination, regardless of their background.
What is The American Dream?
The act of treating someone unfairly or cruelly because of their beliefs or race.
What is persecution?
This muckraker exposed the conditions of tenements, the unsanitary and crowded apartments where most immigrants lived.
Who is Jacob Riis?
What are Eastern and Southern Europe?