IMMIGRATION

What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Did NOT want religious freedom
• Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)
• Wanted LESS diversity
• Wanted to live more simply

How was Angel Island different from Ellis Island?

• Main station for European immigrants
• Main station for Chinese immigrants
• Located on the EAST coast
• People were only there a few hours

What challenges did immigrants face in the US?

• They caught diseases
• Had trouble learning the language/faced prejudice
• Uncomfortable in the large homes in the US
• Difficult to study for the citizenship test

Why did unregulated immigration end in the 1920s?

• US passed Quota laws limiting immigration

• People didn't want to come to the US anymore

• There was a war in the US

• Countries wouldn't allow citizens to leave for the US

Where were most immigrants from?

• Italy
• Slavic Countries
• Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico
• Europe

Immigrants were checked for dangerous diseases because...

• They didn't want them to bring them into the US
• They were discriminating against immigrants
• They had prejudice and did it just to be mean

How did immigrants decide to settle where they did once they came to America?

• They settled in warmer climates

• They settled near water

• They settled by people of similar ethnic backgrounds

• They settled where immigrant officials sent them

Where did European immigrants enter when they came to America?

• Ellis Island
• Rhode Island
• Alcatraz
• Angel Island

Where did Asian immigrants arrive when they came to America?

• Angel Island
• Rhode Island
• Ellis Island
• Fools Island

Why did "Americans" discriminate against the Chinese?

• There owned all the businesses in California

• They had a lot of money when they came to U.S.

• They opened too many restaurants

• they thought they would take their jobs