Immigration and Citizenship

Vocabulary

5

True or False: 

To become the president or vice president of the United States, a person must be a natural-born U.S. citizen.

True

10

What stands in New York Harbor and welcomes people to the United States?

a) the Statue of Liberty 

b) a giant American flag 

c) Carnegie Hall

a) the Statue of Liberty 

20

To get into the United States, many immigrants had to pass inspections at ______ . 

a) Carnegie Hall 

b) Little Italy 

c) Ellis Island

c) Ellis Island

50

What does e pluribus unum mean? 

a) “Out of many, one.” 

b) “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” 

c) “I . . . declare . . . that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America.”

a) “Out of many, one.”

Safety

5

True or false:

Immigrants came to America for many different reasons, including freedom, safety, and opportunity.

True.

10

Many Irish immigrants came to the United States in the 1800s to escape ______.

a) hard times because of lost jobs as weavers 

b) unfair treatment because of their religious beliefs 

c) hunger and starvation because of dying potato crops

c) hunger and starvation because of dying potato crops

20

Many immigrants lived in crowded buildings called ____ .

a) tenements

b) factories 

c) sod houses

a) tenements

50

When immigrants came to the United States, many stayed in the eastern part of the United States and lived in ____.

a) the Great Plains 

b) big cities 

c) Ellis Island

b) big cities 

Opportunity

5

Thousands of immigrants moved west to _____.

a) live in crowded apartment buildings 

b) work in coal mines 

c) farm on the Great Plains

c) farm on the Great Plains

10

What is one right and duty of American citizens? 

a) voting 

b) passing a test 

c) taking an oath of allegiance

a) voting 

20

What did immigrants help to build? 

a) the Statue of Liberty 

b) the first railroad to the Pacific Ocean

c) Ellis Island

b) the first railroad to the Pacific Ocean

50

Andrew Carnegie is remembered because he ____. 

a) gave farms to immigrants 

b) paid to build public libraries

c) wrote a poem about the Statue of Liberty

b) paid to build public libraries