New York Landmarks
An island and one of the five boroughs of New York City
What is Manhattan?
The immigration center on Ellis Island was opened on this year.
What is 1892?
This religous group separated from the Church of England because they thought it was too similar to the Catholic Church. They sailed to the American Continent and founded Boston.
What are the Puritans?
The oldest, most famous university in the United States, found just outside of Boston.
What is Harvard University?
The tribe that Massachusetts is named after
What is the Massachusetts tribe?
A huge statue, gifted by France as a friendship gift to the United States. It bears a torch and a tablet with the date of the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
The number of immigrants that arrived in search of a new life during the 64 years that Ellis Island was open
What is 12 million?
One of the reasons for the END of the time of prosperity experienced by the native tribes before the arrival of the Pilgrims
What is disease?
What is political instability?
What is the death of the Sac'hem?
What is the arrival of European merchants?
ONE of the countries that most immigrants in Boston arrive from today
What is Haiti?
What is Brasil?
What is El Salvador?
What is Vietnam?
What is the Dominican Republic?
What is Guatemala?
This event, in which American colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped tea imported form Britain into the harbor, represented the frustration of the colonists towards the high taxes imposed by the British government.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The largest museum in the USA, with more than 2 million objects in its collection.
What is the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
A reason why an immigrant would be sent back to their country after being examined at Ellis Island.
What is poverty?
or
What is illness/poor health?
The main reason American colonists wanted to become independent from England
What is Taxation without Representation?
Go have lunch and do some shopping in this historical market, found in the center of Boston.
What is Quincy Market?
This borough of New York City starts after Upper Manhattan and finishes on 155th Street, where you will find the Apollo Theater. This legendary place is where some of the most famous African-American artists started their careers.
What is Harlem?
The 9/11 terrorist attacks destroyed this landmark in 2001, and the construction for the new building was completed in 2006.
What is the World Trade Center?
More than 4 million immigrants from this country arrived to America from 1880 to 1924
What is Italy?
This event, in which British soldiers fired their guns into a crowd of American colonists, became an important piece of propaganda in favor of the American Revolution.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The oldest public park in the United States
What is Boston Commons?
This statement, often spoken or read before meetings, serves to acknowledge that the United States is on stolen land, which rightfully belongs to the tribes that have lived there for generations.
What is a Land Acknowledgement?
Inaugurated in 1883, this historic symbol of New York connects Manhattan and Brooklyn.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
The name of the ocean that immigrants from Europe travelled across to reach Ellis Island.
What is the Atlantic Ocean ?
Immigrants from this country arrived in America during the FIRST WAVE of immigration, and often worked as laborers who built railroads. They left their country because of a famine in which their main crop, potatoes, failed.
What is Ireland?
The term for a city, such as Boston, where it is illegal to deport immigrants that arrive.
What is a Sanctuary City?
The traditional activities and occupations of the Massachusetts tribe.
(Name 2!)
What is...
Hunting, fishing, sculpting tools and weapons, harvesting corn, sqach, and beans, celebrating their religion ?