German Immigrants
Famous Immigrants
Working in America
Ellis Island
Stereotypes
100
Who was in power in Germany during World War II?
Adolf Hitler
100
Which Industrial Age immigrant also known as Scarface, was one of the most infamous American gangsters and the leader of the Chicago mafia during Prohibition?
Al Capone
100
Which immigrant group took jobs requiring manual labor in construction, canal building, road building, bridge building, and participated in building the first skyscrapers?
Italian Immigrants
100
What was the first thing an immigrant saw when the boat arrived in America through Ellis Island?
The Statue of Liberty
100
Which immigrant group was stereotyped as dirty, illiterate, gangsters, and criminals?
Italian Immigrants
200
What two German Immigrant Christmas Traditions were adopted by Americans?
Christmas trees and exchanging presents
200
Which Industrial Age immigrant was deported because he or she was involved in the anarchist movement and anti-war campaigns?
Emma Goldman
200
Which immigrant group tended to either farm or work in cities as butchers, carpenters, brewers, distillers, tailors, musicians, or merchants?
German Immigrants
200
What room of the Ellis Island Immigration Station was a large rectangular room 200 feet long and 102 feet wide with long metal rails that kept immigrants in an orderly line to be processed?
Registry Room or the Great Hall
200
Which immigrant group was stereotyped as “nonassimilable”?
Chinese Immigrants
300
Who did the May Laws of 1870 discriminate against in Germany?
Jews and Catholics
300
Which immigrant won an Oscar for his or her performance in the movie "Casablanca"?
Ingrid Bergman
300
Which immigrant group tended to work in the mining, railroad, and fishing industries and helped to build irrigation systems in the west?
Chinese Immigrants
300
Why did medical examiners draw an “X” or “P” on immigrants clothing during processing?
They were risks to public health and needed to be detained for further examination
300
Which immigrant group was only stereotyped as “beer guzzlers” until World War II when many of this group became stereotyped as Nazis?
German Immigrants
400
What wall divided Germany into East Germany and West Germany before 1990?
The Berlin Wall
400
Which Industrial Age immigrant proposed the Theory of Relativity?
Albert Einstein
400
Which immigrant group worked mainly as farmers but also in outdoor industries such as construction, logging, and cattle ranching?
Scandinavian Immigrants
400
What was the part of Immigrant Processing by which immigrants had to answer 29 questions about themselves?
The Legal Inspection
400
Which Immigrant group had a series of jokes about them because they were considered slow and stupid?
Polish Immigrants
500
Who paid for one way tickets to America to help reduce the population of Germany?
German princes
500
Which Industrial Age immigrant was a muckraker journalist who posed as an inmate patient at Bellevue Hospital to expose patient abuse?
Nelly Bly
500
Which immigrant group contained princes and other royals that came to America and took service jobs such as waiters, taxi drivers, and book sellers as well as industry jobs such coal mining, slaughter house workers, and meat packing workers?
Russian Immigrants
500
Where did immigrants wait and meet loved ones already living in America after immigrant processing?
The Kissing Post
500
Which immigrant group were called “Guests” because Americans stereotyped them as too clannish and not really part of America?
Scandinavian Immigrants