Immigration

What phrase is used to describe America?

• blended

• melting pot

• adventurous

• lucky

Where did European immigrants enter when they came to America?

• Ellis Island
• Rhode Island
• Alcatraz
• Angel 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 held onto their culture (language, food, clothing) & they thought they would take their jobs

This group of immigrants faced discrimination due to stereotypes such as "hot-tempered", "loud", "violent", "drunkards".

• Italians
• Chinese
• Germans
• Irish

What major event caused millions of Irish immigrants to come to the United States?

• World War 1
• The Irish Potato Famine
• The Civil War
• The Gold Rush

Why were so few Chinese immigrants allowed to come to the United States?

• Very few tried to come
• The voyage was too far and expensive
• There were no jobs available
• The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Immigrants came to America to escape

• religious persecution
• famine
• poor economies
• all of the above

Why did immigrants often live in neighborhoods with others from their homelands?

• It was illegal to live anywhere else
• They didn't want to be in the US
• It made their adjustment to their new life easier
• No other housing was avaliable

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

Where were most immigrants from?

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