"The Statue of Liberty"
The writer of the famous words at the bottom of our Lady Liberty, the "Mother of Exiles".
Who is Emma Lazarus?
A person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution.
What is a refugee?
The main act for which the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay was built.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
He sold his first illustration at age 12 and is best remembered for his "I Want You", a World War I poster of Uncle Sam, for which he served as model.
Who was James Montgomery Flagg?
During this event, the Chinese were the largest group other than whites. Most came from the southern coast of China. Since the Chinese proved to be effective in this position, resentment grew and they became “an easy mark” for foreign taxes in 1851.
What was the Gold Rush?
The name of the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
What is the New Colossus?
The movement began in the 1840s and remained fairly popular through the 1850s. It primarily gave voice to nativist opposition to the increasing immigration of Irish Catholics and other non-Anglo Saxon Protestants into the United States
What was the American Party, nicknamed the Know Nothing Party?
The years Angel Island was used as an Immigration port.
When was 1910 - 1940?
Uncle Sam first came to represent the United States government, but the prevailing legend dates back to the War of 1812 and a well-known meatpacker named . . .
Who was Samuel Wilson?
This law introduced a quota system, limiting overall the number of people allowed to immigrate per year to 165,000, an 80% reduction from prior years, and allotting a certain number of visas to people from each country outside of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act?
The French sculptor who used the repoussé technique to create the statue.
Who is Auguste Bartholdi?
The United States up to this event had an “open door” immigration policy, with no limit on the number of people who could enter the United States.
What is the First World War?
The percentage of arrivals detained at Angel Island.
What was 70%?
One of the earliest symbolic stand-ins for the United States, a female icon usually dressed in a toga.
In one famous depiction, she’s seen mourning President Abraham Lincoln, joined by Britannia, another female character who personifies England, and a formerly enslaved person whose plight remains unclear.
Who was “Columbia”?
This banned Chinese women from entering the United States to prevent the settlement of families, but continued to allow Chinese men and their labor.
What was the Page Act of 1875?
An experienced engineer who Bartholdi recruited to help troubleshoot structural issues with the massive sculpture.
Who was Alexandre Gustave Eiffel?
Under a presidential directive dated Dec. 22, 1945, this president authorized displaced persons and refugees to receive expedited admission into the U.S., within the framework of existing immigration law.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
The people who lived on Angel Island before any white men did.
Who are the Coastal Miwok?
On Aug. 3, 1949, President Harry S. Truman officially declared June 14 as . . .
What is Flag Day?
The President who signed the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Who is Chester Alan Arthur, the 21st president of the United States?
The copper coating her is 3/32 inches thick (about 2.5 millimeters), which happens to be the same thickness as:
What are two pennies placed together?
With over four million people in Guatemala and Mexico, they form one of the largest indigenous groups in the Americas. Although exact figures are not known, it is estimated that as many as 500,000 of these people have migrated to the United States.
Who are the Maya?
She was technically a minor, a 17-year-old Irish girl named Annie Moore.
Who was the first person to pass through Ellis Island?
In the late 1860s and 1870s, this person began popularizing the image of Uncle Sam. He continued to evolve the image, eventually giving Sam the white beard and stars-and-stripes suit that are associated with the character today.
Who was political cartoonist Thomas Nast (1840-1902)?
The court extended the California law that African Americans and Native Americans could not testify in court to include the Chinese in the case of . . .
What is People v. Hall?