What famous empire developed in Italy and spread throughout Europe, African, and Asia from 752 B.C to 1476 A.D.?
The Roman Empire
100
Which term means “city”?
urban
100
Which immigrant group was so discriminated against that they were never given an option to assimilate before World War II?
Chinese Immigrants
100
What very contagious eye disease was contracted by some immigrants while travelling to America?
Trachoma
100
What does the word detainment mean?
to delay or stop an immigrant from proceeding by holding them for further testing or making them wait
200
What were the Contadini?
peasants from the south of Italy
200
Which term means “country”?
rural
200
Which immigrant group were first viewed as uneducated, quick - tempered drunks but used their numbers and the rights to congregate and vote to change their living conditions, working conditions, and improve their social status?
Irish Immigrants
200
What disease was contracted by some immigrants from rats and fleas aboard passenger ships to America?
Typhus
200
Which immigrant station detained the most immigrants that came to their immigrant station for a longer amount of time?
Angel Island
300
What was the real name of the Italian mobster known as “Scarface”?
Al Capone
300
What term developed when people began forming small towns outside of big cities?
suburban
300
Which immigrant group was first stereotyped as gangsters, criminals, and anarchists but changed this stereotype and gained acceptance after large numbers joined the U.S. military and bravely fought in World War II?
Italian Immigrants
300
What disease was contracted by some immigrants on passenger ships to America from eating food contaminated with bacteria?
Cholera
300
What were the two reasons immigrants were detained?
failing medical or legal inspections
400
From what region were 25% of Italian immigrants?
Sicily
400
What word means a thickly populated slum area in a city that is usually populated by poor immigrants or ethnic people?
ghetto
400
Which immigrant group contained a category of immigrants that suffered anti-Semitism until after 1945 when the Holocaust became common knowledge?
Russian-Polish Immigrants
400
What disease was contracted in many tenements during the winter months by breathing in bacteria into the lungs causing difficulty breathing, and flu like symptoms?
Pneumonia
400
What happened to sick immigrants with curable illnesses?
they were hospitalized at the immigrant station and quarantined until they were better
500
Who was the Italian immigrant who’s anarchist politics got him blamed for a murder he did not commit?
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
500
What Act was passed by Abraham Lincoln that caused many German and Scandinavian immigrants to settle in the Midwest?
The Homestead Act of 1862
500
Which immigrant group felt little discrimination as a whole until 1914 when their home country sparked World War I?
German Immigrants
500
What disease was common among poor immigrant men and was characterized by consuming large amounts of beer or liquor?
Alcoholism
500
What was the major reason for legal detention of immigrants?
answers differing from the answers listed on the ship's manifest