Immigration
The immigration processing center outside of New York City (majority European immigrants)
What is Ellis Island?
Places that supported new immigrants to America by providing child care, English classes, and food for example.
What are Settlement Houses?
With out this mode of transportation, skyscrapers would not be possible.
What is the elevator?
The invention that allowed women more freedom in their daily lives.
What is the bicycle?
Groups that influenced immigrants on who they should vote for through giving them benefits like food or jobs.
What are political machines?
The immigration processing center outside of San Francisco (majority Asian immigrants)
What is Angel Island?
The most influential/famous creator of Settlement Houses.
Who is Jane Addams?
The specific name of Mr Gs favorite amusement park ride.
What is a roller coaster? And what is the Raging Bull?
The beloved high flying and fast sport that was invented by a Canadian.
What is basketball?
Money received from by a political boss after illegally helping out a company.
What is a kickback?
The belief that American culture/people were superior to the immigrant culture/people.
What is Nativism?
The animal that could commonly be found dead in the middle of streets in NYC.
What is a horse?
A sandwich restaurant that shares its name with one of the major technological advancements of the era.
What is Subway?
The famous New York City amusement park.
What is Coney Island?
The location that, "give your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" is inscribed.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
The amount of money that you needed to get through Ellis Island and be allowed into America.
25 dollars
The type of natural disaster that caused massive damage to San Francisco in 1906.
What is an Earthquake?
The location of and the names of the two men that achieved the "First Flight".
What is Kitty Hawk, North Carolina or Outer Banks? and Who are the Wright Brothers?
The not "proven to work" product that early 1900s shopping catalogs sold for people to use in their hair to promote hair growth.
What is cocaine?
The thing that the USA is described as because it is a country with many different cultures and people mixed together.
What is a melting pot?
Work opportunities, religious freedom, fertile land, and greater wealth are all examples of what kinds of factors influencing immigrants to come to the USA.
Pull Factors
The names of the 5 boroughs of New York City.
What are the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and Staten Island?
The name that you see in many elevators.
What is OTIS?
The mass circulation of newspapers positively impacted this skill.
What is reading?
What language does Mr. W speak?
What is Arabic?