SS Vocab

Fill in the blank:

My grandfather _____________ to the United States.

• immigrated

• emigrated

a person who moves into another country.  Use this term when talking about the country moved into. 

• Migration

• Ancestor

• Emigrant

• Immigrant

3rd class passenger space on steamships.  Wide open space on the bottom of the ship.  Cheapest tickets, crowded conditions with poor food.

• Culture

• Steerage

• Manifest

• Emigrant

Immigration processing center located in NY Harbor. 

• Tenement

• Ellis Island

• Statue of Liberty

• Angel Island

A document on a ship that contains information about who or what the ship is carrying. 

• Steerage

• Migration

• Manifest

• National

A symbol of welcome to immigrants arriving by steamship.

• Tenement

• Ellis Island

• Statue of Liberty

• Angel Island

language, customs, arts, foods, clothing, beliefs of a particular group of 

               people (things that make them special/different from other groups).

• Culture

• Citizen

• National

• Manifest

 a person in a country who is not a national of that country (born in another country).

• Refugee

• Emigrant

• Immigrant

• Alien

a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.  

• Emigrant

• Refugee

• Alien

• National

 person who leaves one country to move permanently to another country.  Use this term when talking about the country left behind.

• Ancestor

• Immigrant

• Emigrant

• Migration