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California Gold rush and to build the first transcontinental railroad
Why did Chinese people immigrate to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century?
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Christians that are not Catholics
What are Protestants?
100
San Francisco, CA
What city and state is Angel Island located on?
100
New York, NY
What city and state is Ellis Island located in?
100
Europe, North America, South America, Oceania/Australia, Antarctica, Africa, Asia
What are the 7 continents?
200
China and Japan
What two countries did most immigrants from Asia emigrate from?
200
Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Russia
What are countries in Southern and Eastern Europe?
200
anonymous poems in pencil or ink on walls or wood
What did immigrants at Angel Island write?
200
A few hours or about a day
How much time did it take for immigrants to pass through Ellis Island?
200
Reasons that encourage a person to leave a particular place.
What are push factors?
300
The law that stopped further Chinese immigration and prevented Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
the event when potato crops died in Ireland and caused massive job loss and starvation
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
300
took months or years to process immigrants
How long did it take for immigrants to go through Angel Island?
300
the poorest section of the ship
What is the steerage?
300
railroad that went from the west coast to the east coast of the USA
What is the transcontinental railroad?
400
anti-Chinese feelings
What is yellow peril?
400
to escape religious persecution, lack of economic ($$$) opportunities, and famine
Why did immigrants come from Northern Europe to the USA?
400
western famers needed cheap labor
Why did Japanese immigrants come to the United States?
400
cause/effect, compare/contrast, sequence, part to whole
What are the different text structures?
500
Economic problems in Japan caused hardships for its people
Why did people leave Japan and immigrate to the United States?
500
Chose to live and work in large cities on the east coast of the USA
What did immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe choose to do?
500
"muk uk" or "wooden house"
What did Chinese immigrants from canton call the two-story shed on Angel Island?