Ellis Island
What form of transportation did all immigrants who went through Ellis Island take to America?
Ships/Boats
What percentage of the US population has descended from immigrants?
98%
Immigrant
How did the ships/boats separate passengers (2 answers)
Class
Wealth
What were the main reasons immigrants from Ireland, Germany, and China came to America (2 answers)
Fleeing poverty/disease
Gold Rush in California
Many immigrants come to the United States today seeking these two things:
Safety
A Better Life
What is the percentage of Americans that descended from immigrants that passed through Ellis Island?
40%
Economic Opportunities
Religious Freedom
Where are the majority of legal immigrants coming from today?
Mexico
Latin America
What year did Ellis Island open?
1892
Name the 3 countries that immigrated to America due to land/job shortages, famine, and the promises of freedom and economic opportunity (3 answers)
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
This is a government process where people ask to stay in a country because they are unsafe in their home country.
Name 1 of the reasons an immigrant could get flagged and possibly denied entrance to the US
Contagious Disease, Physical/Mental Defects, Public Charges, Lack of Financial Means, Anarchists/Criminals, Stowaways
This 1882 law was the first major piece of US legislation to ban immigration based on nationality, targeting a specific group from Asia
Chinese Exclusion Act
Everglades National Park