Immigration Simulation

Something that attracts people to a place or activity

• push factor

• pull factor

Something that causes someone to leave a place or situation

• push factor

• pull factor

What does this image represent?

• Angel Island

• Statue of Liberty

• Steamship

• Ellis Island

What does this image represent?

• Deportation

• Medical Inspection

• Legal Inspection

• Hospitalization

What motivated many immigrants to come to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? Choose the best answer.

• The hope of becoming sharecroppers in the south

• The desire for better social and economic opportunities

• The fair treatment and short work hours in American factories

• The lack of discrimination in the United States

Most immigrants on the East Coast were processed where?

• Washington, D.C.
• Ellis Island
• Angel Island
• Baltimore

Most immigrants traveled

• first class
• second class
• steerage
• fourth class

How were New immigrants different than Old Immigrants

• They were much better writers
• social studies
• Most of then spoke very little English
• The new immigrants were new and the old immigrants were old

What is the attitude towards immigration in this political cartoon?

• positive; it is a holy endeavor to allow religious minorities into the US

• positive; allowing immigrants to escape military service is the right thing to do

• negative; European immigrants will bring their garbage lifestyles with them to the US

• negative; immigrants are infesting the US and destroying our culture

Nativists believed ..

• Immigrants threatened the American way of Life and Democracy.

• White Protestants were superior to other immigrant groups.

• Immigrants stole jobs from natives.

• All of the above.