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New Immigrants
Ellis Island
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100
Name the two most common countries "new" immigrants were from:
What is Russia & Italy?
100
How did most immigrants travel to the USA? (be specific!)
What is a steamship?
100
What type of building did immigrants live in?
What is a tenement?
100

Provide two ways that cities fought crime:

What are more police, streetlamps and mug shots?

100

What two cities were the most common for immigrants to move to?

NYC & Chicago

200
Give two push factors that led to immigration:
What are scarce land, political/religious persecution, revolution, poverty?
200
What part of the ship did most immigrants travel in?
What is steerage?
200
Where is the most crowded neighborhood in the world in 1900?
What is the Lower East Side?
200

What was the nickname for the area that immigrants lived in?

What is a ghetto?

200

What is a workplace where people labor long hours in poor conditions for low pay called?

What is a sweatshop?

300
Give two pull factors that led to immigration:
What are religious/political freedom, jobs, land, family?
300
How were immigrants with potential diseases marked?
They were marked with chalk.
300

What two inventions were necessary to build skyscrapers?

Bessemer Process and elevators.

300

Where did immigrants most often work?

What are factories?

300

What did Congress pass to limit immigration?

Quotas

400
Why did immigration slow down in 1914?
Due to World War I.
400
How many immigrants were processed at Ellis Island?
12 million
400

Name two ways that cities worked to improve problems with traffic?

Subways/elevated trains/streetcars

400

What was the most common job for women in the late 19th century?

What is a seamstress?

400

Name two ways that cities worked to improve problems with traffic?

Subways/elevated trains/streetcars

500

Where could immigrants go for help to adjust to their new life in America? 

Settlement Houses

500
During the legal inspection, what did government officials use to determine if immigrants were telling the truth?
What is a ship's manifest (passenger list)?
500

Where did the poor shop? Where did the middle class and rich shop? 

Pushcarts vs. Department Stores

500

Why did immigrants choose to live in the ghetto?

To be with people who spoke their language and knew their culture

500

How many apartments are there per floor in a tenement? How many are there in total? 

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