A person who leaves his or her own country to live in another country.
What is an immigrant?
100
The largest group of immigrants to come to Iowa.
What is the Germans?
100
This man suggested the turkey as our national bird.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
This is what Ellis Island was used for.
What is an immigration station?
100
Everyone except for this ethnic group has an ancestor that was an immigrant.
What are Native Americans?
200
Before 1880, most immigrants came to Iowa from this continent.
What is Europe?
200
Many Germans joined this group in order to keep their culture and traditions alive.
What is the Turner Society?
200
The turkey got its name from __________.
What is the "turk, turk" sound it makes when it is startled?
200
True or False. Ellis Island is still being used as an immigration station.
False. It is a museum now.
200
Immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship must live in the U.S. for this many years before they can take the test to become a citizen.
What is 5 years?
300
The most important reason why people came to Iowa (and America).
What is to have a better life?
300
These three countries make up Scandinavia.
What are Sweden, Denmark, and Norway?
300
A large group of Norwegian immigrants settled in this northeastern Iowa town.
What is Decorah?
300
At Ellis Island the immigrants were checked. If they were _____ they might have to be sent back to their home country.
What is sick?
300
Many Irish immigrants came to America for this reason.
What is the potato famine (they were starving)?
400
Iowa had ___________ and many immigrants wanted their chance to own their own.
What is cheap land?
400
This group of immigrants settled in Pella. Also, give an example of how they keep their culture alive.
What is the Dutch? What is Tulip Time?
400
This museum in Decorah, Iowa, is the largest museum focusing on a single ethnic group in the entire United States. It honors the Norwegian culture.
What is the Vesterheim Museum and Library?
400
Two additional islands had to be built because Ellis Island was so busy. They built the islands by ____________________.
What is dumping Earth and rock into the bay near Ellis Island?
400
New York City and San Francisco had large immigrant populations for this reason.
What is most immigrants spent their life savings on the trip over to America and didn't have enough money left to travel any further so they stayed in the city where they arrived?
500
There were at least 3 different reasons that immigrants came to Iowa.
What are for cheap land, religious freedom, a better life, to escape military service, and they didn't agree with their country's government?
500
The biggest difference between where the Italian immigrants settled and other immigrants.
What is Italian immigrants settled near cities rather than on farms? They found jobs in coal mines and working on the railroads.
500
The meaning of the Norwegian word "Vesterheim".
What is "western home"?
500
About this many immigrants entered Ellis Island between 1890 and 1915.
What is 16 million?
500
There are at least five things that make up someone's culture.
What are food, religion, traditions, language, celebrations, holidays, clothing, art, games, music, and customs?