Irish Potato Famine
Poverty and lack of food such as happened in Ireland are examples of this type of factor that increases immigration rates.
What is a push factor?
Before airplanes, the way people immigrated to America from Europe was by this method.
Travel by ship.
People inspected at this immigration station were from this passenger class.
What is steerage?
Being 18 years old and having good character or 2 requirements for what process?
What is citizenship OR naturalization?
The U.S. entered this war in 1941 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
What is WW2?
Promise of a better life in a new country is called what?
A pull factor.
Document that lists who was on a ship, where they came from, and where they were going.
What is a ship's manifest?
Not being able to answers questions and having red eyes which may be a sign of trachoma are 2 examples.
What are reasons for failing the inspection?
OR
What are reasons immigrants may be detained at Ellis Island?
Small living space, crowded buildings, and few possessions marked life in this type of housing in the early 1900s used by immigrant families.
What are tenements?
This was the reason that Japanese-Americans were detained during WW2.
What is discrimination and/or racism?
A reason for leaving your home country such as sickness, war, or persecution are examples of this.
What is a push factor?
Passengers enjoyed large rooms, delicious food, and entertainment on steamships in which class?
What is 1st class?
One of the greatest concerns of immigrants going through Ellis Island.
What is passing the medical inspection?
Selling newspapers to earn money might be done by which members of immigrant families?
What are immigrant children?
Japanese-Americans were taken to these places because people thought of them as enemies, despite their U.S. citizenship.
What are internment camps?
The 2 causes of the potato famine in Ireland.
What are fungus/disease and landlords who exported food despite starving workers?
This nickname was given to ships that brought immigrants across the ocean because many died at sea due to disease and the bodies were thrown overboard.
What are swimming coffins?
Information from ship manifests were used to question individuals at Ellis Island. Today we can still get information from those original documents meaning they are an example of what type of resource?
What is a primary document or primary source?
Age and number of years one must live in the US to apply for citizenship?
What are 18 years of age and resident 5 years or more?
During WW2, the US fought against Japan, Italy, and Germany, but only this group of people had their rights violated by being interned in camps despite no suspicion of wrong-doing or "spy-like" behavior.
Who are Japanese-Americans?
Factor that causes someone to choose the country they move to such as opportunity for a better life, available jobs, or available resources like food.
What is a pull factor?
Some hardships experienced by passengers of this class were: overcrowding, little privacy, unclean living areas, disease/illness, little and poor quality food.
What is steerage?
This is the number of immigrants processed at Ellis Island between 1892-1954.
What is 12 million?
You must be able to answer basic facts about government, history, and the constitution of this country to become a citizen.
What is the United States of America?
The U.S. government, with President Ronald Reagan, apologized for this violation of rights and paid reparations to the affected families who lost homes, jobs, and businesses and were treated unfairly.
What is Japanese Internment?