Immigration

What is persecution

• Giving people help

• unfair treatment or punishment

• when the government takes away your rights

• not having enough food

What is Prejudice

• Government taking away your rights

• Being poor and having no home

• Being punished for no reason

• - feeling some people have that makes them dislike members of a different race or culture

What is Tenement?

• - crowded and poorly built apartment houses

• A nice home in a neighborhood

• a place where people can come into this country

• Medical tests that are given

What was Ellis Island

• - entry place into the United States for most immigrants from Asia

• A vacation spot in NYC

• - entry place into the United States for most immigrants from Europe

• a place where they put prisoners of war

What is an Ethnic Group -

• A group of people who share a culture or language

• A group of people who are fighting together

• People who are mistreated

• A group who dislike each other

What is Angel Island?

• A place where people were treated well

• entry place into the United States for most immigrants from Europe

• An Island where lots of people explore

• entry place into the United States for most immigrants from Asia

Where can you find a museum telling the story of EUROPEAN immigrants to the United States?

• Ellis Island

• Long Island

• Alkatraz Island

• Angel Island

Immigrants had their own

• immigration stations

• languages & customs

• Railroads

Jewish immigrants came to the US from Eastern Europe mainly to escape

• political revolutions

• poverty

• Floods and famine

• religious persecution

What attracted people to America’s rapidly growing cities in the late 1800s?

• Job opportunities

• tenement houses

• electric lighting

• art museums