Early Immigration

At which Immigration Station were you processed in less than a day?

• Bradley Island

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

• SS Hemenway

What was a reason that people immigrated to the US?

• freedom of religion

• job opportunities

• to escape hunger and poverty

• all of the above

What is an immigrant?

• someone who was born in America

• someone who travels

• someone who arrives or comes to live in a new country in which he or she was not born

• someone who leaves America to go on vacation

In 1892, _______openend its doors as the EAST COAST immigration processing center.

• Angel Island

• The Empire State Building

• Boston, Massachusetts

• Ellis Island

Angel Island was an immigrant processing center in the New York Harbor.

• True

• False

Immigration no longer exists today.

• True

• False

Immigrants usually settled:

• in communities and neighborhoods with people from their home country

• with American families until they got jobs

• in Canada

Immigrants saw America as a land of opportunity. Which wonderful thing below did they expect to find once they got there?

• streets paved with gold

• high paying jobs

• lots of cheap open land

• all of the above

Immigrant kids often had to _____

• work dangerous jobs

• take care of their siblings

• work 7 days a week for long hours

• all of the above

What were tenements?

• books that the Paper Sons and daughters studied

• buildings that housed immigrants

• factories that immigrants worked in