A Nation of Immigrants
Someone who is related to a person or group of people in the past.
What is a descendant?
Shipped goods or cargo.
What is freight?
An organized killing of a group of people; usually used to refer to attacks on Jews in Eastern Europe during the 1800s.
What is a pogrom?
An object or picture that stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
A Jewish house of worship
What is a synagogue?
The act of coming to live permanently in a new country.
What is immigration?
an apartment building, often overcrowded an in need of repairs; usually in a city slum.
What is a tenement?
Unfair treatment of a person or group because of beliefs about that group of people.
What is discrimination?
A small, simple wood building.
What is a shanty?
To allow someone from another country to become a citizen.
What is naturalization?
The act of leaving one country to settle permanently in another.
What is emigration?
Affected by fungus that grows in damp conditions.
What is mildewed?
Treated cruelly or unfairly.
What is persecuted?
A statue that is larger than life-size.
What is a colossus?
A container used for melting metal substances at a very high temperature.
What is a crucible?
From which country did people emigrate to escape the potato blight?
What is Ireland?
This U.S. city had the largest port of entry for immigrants sailing across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is New York City?
Immigrants from China and Japan typically entered the U.S. through this port of entry city.
What is San Francisco?
A policy of giving preference to people who are from a specific country, or who already live in a country, rather than to immigrants.
What is nativism?
These free institutions played a huge role in educating and assimilating the children of immigrants.
What are public schools?
Which conflict caused U.S. immigration to slow down in the 1860s?
Farmers leaving Europe hope to purchase this once they arrived to the United States.
What is [farm]land?
Many immigrants came to California is search of this shiny substance.
What is gold?
This country gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States as a gift.
What is France?
Immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship through the naturalization process are required to pass a test on these two subjects.
What are American history and civics?