Ellis Island
This immigration station processed mostly immigrants from which region of the world?
What is Europe?
Angel Island is located in this state.
What is California?
Tenements were mostly found in these types of areas.
What are cities or urban areas?
An immigrant is someone who does this.
What is moves to another country to live?
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in this year.
What is 1882?
Ellis Island is located in this harbor.
What is New York Harbor?
Angel Island mainly processed immigrants from this continent.
What is Asia?
Tenement apartments were usually this.
What is overcrowded or small?
One major reason immigrants came to the U.S. was for this.
What is jobs or economic opportunity?
This law banned immigrants from this country.
What is China?
Most immigrants spent this amount of time being inspected at Ellis Island.
What is a few hours (or one day)?
Unlike Ellis Island, immigrants at Angel Island were often detained for this reason.
What is long interrogations or investigations?
Many tenements lacked this basic necessity.
What is running water, toilets, or ventilation?
A “push factor” is something that does this.
What is pushes people out of their home country?
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first U.S. law to do this.
What is ban a specific nationality or ethnic group?
Doctors at Ellis Island checked immigrants for this before allowing entry.
What is disease or illness?
Many detainees carved poems into the walls expressing this feeling.
What is loneliness, frustration, or sadness?
This law was passed to improve tenement living conditions.
What is the Tenement House Act of 1901?
A “pull factor” is something that does this.
What is attracts people to a new country?
This act mainly affected immigrants trying to enter through this island.
What is Angel Island?
Ellis Island operated mainly during this time period.
What is the late 1800s to early 1900s (1892–1924)?
Angel Island is often called this because of how immigrants were treated.
What is “the Ellis Island of the West”?
Tenements are important to history because they show this about immigrants.
What is how immigrants lived and struggled in cities?
Immigration changed the U.S. by doing this.
What is increasing cultural diversity or population growth?
The Chinese Exclusion Act was finally repealed in this year.
What is 1943?