Migration Review - Flocabulary

True or False: People have only been migrating for the last 2000 years.

• True

• False

Vandi was born in Sierra Leone and moved to the US permanently at age six. Vandi is a(n) ________.

• immigrant to the US and an emigrant from Sierra Leone

• emigrant from the US and an immigrant to Sierra Leone

• immigrant to both the US and Sierra Leone

• refugee and a migrant from the US

Vandi’s family left Sierra Leone because of war. The war was a(n) ________.

• political pull factor

• environmental push factor

• political push factor

• environmental pull factor

Which of the following could be a pull factor?

• a destructive earthquake in Haiti

• a strong education system in South Korea

• a lack of jobs in Greece

• a large number of refugees from Rwanda

Which of the following is a false statement?

• Voluntary migration can be very difficult.

• Many Native Americans were forced to migrate in the 1800s.

• There are no refugees in the world today.

• Many US immigrants passed through the immigration station on Ellis Island.

Which of the following is an example of forced migration?

• Africans brought to the US as slaves

• A family moving to the US from Mexico in search of work

• Europeans establishing colonies in the New World

• People leaving Benin for better farming conditions

The Trail of Tears was a(n) ________.

• path many immigrants took across the Atlantic

• forced migration of Irish-Americans in the 1900s

• forced migration of the Cherokee nation

• path people took when they did not pass inspection at Ellis Island

Between 1892 and 1954, ________ was a sign of welcome to many immigrants to the US.

• the Golden Gate Bridge

• the Washington Monument

• the Sears Tower

• the Statue of Liberty

Which of the following is an example of seasonal migration?

• refugees who fled Russia due to religious persecution

• a man who moves to California every summer to harvest crops and lives in Mexico through the winter

• a child who lived in a tenement building until he was 18 and then moved to a farm

• a woman who moved inland after a hurricane

the act of coming to live in another country

• immigration

• emigration

• push factor

• pull factor