Immigration Vocabulary Quiz

Island in New York Harbor that was the United States' busiest immigrant inspection station

• Angel Island

• Ellis Island

• Caymen Island

a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country

• Naturalization

• Famine

• Immigrant

deny someone access to a place

• Exclusion

• Inclusion

• Illusion

the process of becoming a U.S. citizen

• Oath of Allegiance

• Naturalization

• Application

the official oath naturalized citizens take to declare allegiance to the U.S.

• Pledge of Allegiance

• Star Spangled Banner

• Oath of Allegiance

provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Naturalization Act of 1790

• Steerage Act of 1819

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

to learn and practice the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group of people

• Immigration

• Ethnicity

• Assimilation

• Cultural Arts

Something that attracts people to a place. (Ex. Warm weather, lower taxes, etc.)

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor

• X Factor

Something that makes people want to leave a place or escape from a particular situation. (Ex. poverty, religious persecution, etc.)

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor

• X Factor

Immigration facility on the West Coast of the United States from 1910 to 1940

• Ellis Island

• Cayman Island

• Angel Island

• Mackinac Island