This was a group of about 100 people fleeing from religious persecution in Europe, who arrived in present day Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.
Who are the Pilgrims
100
These were the 3 accommodations aboard a immigrant ferrying boat.
What is First Class, Second Class and Steerage
100
This was the purpose of an organization like the Know-nothings.
What is to oppose immigration
100
This was what the Irish had to face while living in unsanitary living conditions in America between the 1800’s through the early 1900’s.
What is Disease and sickness
100
This was what the pilgrims did when they came to America.
What is Establish a Colony
200
This was the event that was caused by Irish potato crop failures, resulting in the immigration of 4.6 million Irish to America.
What is The Great Hunger.
200
This was what doctors hired by steamship lines that ferried immigrants to Ellis Island were responsible for.
What is medical examinations
200
This was the job that most German immigrants performed upon arriving in America during the 19th century.
What is farming
200
This was the labor intensive job that many Chinese immigrants performed in America between the 18th century all the way to the early 19th century.
What is constructing railroads
200
This was the religion the Irish immigrants brought to America in 1820.
What is Catholicism
300
This was the reason why 4 million Italian immigrants immigrated to America between the 1880’s and the 1920’s.
What is fleeing from poverty in rural areas
300
These are the conditions immigrants faced in the steerage.
What is Crowded deplorable living conditions
300
This was the law that congress passed because there was an overpopulation of about 322,000 Chinese immigrants.
What is The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
300
This was one of the jobs that no one else took in America except Irish immigrants
What is Coal mining
300
In the mid-18th century this is what German immigrants brought to America.
What is German Language
400
Around the 1850’s this was the amount of Asian immigrants that immigrated to America because of the California gold rush.
What is 25,000 Asian immigrants
400
This was the range of the number of days it took for immigrants to arrive at Ellis island by boat.
What is a week to several months.
400
This was the year that president Benjamin Harrison designated Ellis Island as an official immigration station.
What is 1890
400
This was what Chinese-American Immigrants did between the 1800’s all the way to the early 1900’s in order to protect each other from anti-Chinese Americans.
What is form groups of the same nationality
400
This was the reason why in 1865 Chinese workers were valued over American workers during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is because Chinese workers worked dangerous jobs for lower wages.
500
This was the number of Africans slaves that were the first to be brought to Jamestown, Virginia in 1619.
What is 20 African Slaves
500
This is the number of questions immigrants had to answer in order to enter boats that ferried them to Ellis Island.
What is 31 questions
500
In 1790 this was the estimated number of African Slaves in America.
What is 700,000 Slaves
500
This was the number of German families that originally came to America in 1683 who eventually formed what was known as German town.
What is 13 families
500
Between 1619 and 1865 this was what African slaves helped improve in America.