Ellis Island
What year did Ellis Island open?
1892
What year did Angel Island start?
January 21, 1910
The reason most Immigrants came to the United States.(Push Factor)
What is because life was hard or dangerous in their homeland?
What is one of the requirements for an immigrant to apply for U.S. citizenship?
must be able to speak, read, and write basic English
True or False- People had to go through legal interveiws when they got to Elllis Island
True
Preconceived opinions or feelings, often negative, formed without adequate knowledge or consideration
What is Prejudice?
The major reason for Chinese immigration to the United States in the mid-1800s?
What is the California Gold Rush?
What is something you have to do as a citizen?
pay taxes
What is a steerage?
The part of a ship providing accommodations for passengers with the cheapest tickets
What are two most common jobs for Chinese Immigrants
railroad and agriculture work
The continent that most people immigrated from in the late 1800s and early 1900s
What Is Europe?
What is the percent of Immigrants who failed the Citizenship test
89.5%
How many people failed the tests
2%
What is angel Island known as?
Ellis Island of the west
The place where medical inspections and legal interviews were conducted
New York Harbor
what did Norwegians like about iowa?
that Iowa had forests and looked much like Norway.
How many people were let through Ellis Island
over 12 million
The number of people who passed through Angel Island
What is 300,000 to one million.
The What class of passengers on transatlantic ships during the 1800s faced the worst conditions like overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and limited food?
Steerage
what cause Norwegians to come to Iowa?
because of the state of there country, bad political and economy