Immigration Vocabulary Quiz

What is a push factor?

• Something that attracts people to another location such as more economic opportunities

• Something that causes people to leave their homelands such as a lack of economic opportunities

• To move permanently into a new country

• Leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another

What is a pull factor?

• A factor that attracts people to another location

• A factor that causes people to leave their homelands

• To move permanently into a new country

• Leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another

What does immigration mean?

• A factor that attracts people to another location

• A factor that causes people to leave their homelands

• To move permanently into a new country

• Leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another

What does emigration mean?

• A factor that attracts people to another location

• A factor that causes people to leave their homelands

• To move permanently into a new country

• Leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

• 1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States

• The immigration station outside California where Asian immigrants were processed before entering the US

• Immigration station in New York where European immigrants were processed before entering the US

• An extreme shortage of food

Elsa left Poland to immigrate to the US because of a famine in her country. What does this mean?

• There wasn't enough food for everyone.

• There was persecution of citizens because of their religious beliefs.

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

• People were behaving unfairly

In Europe, many people were treated unfairly because of their political beliefs. This was:

• Discrimination

• Famine

• Immigration

• Ellis Island

In some places, immigrants left their home countries where they were beaten and even killed for their religious beliefs. They came to America so the would no longer be ___________.

• pull factor

• persecuted

• famine

• emigrate

Ming was a Chinese immigrant who came to America to work on the railroad. Which immigration station did he most likely arrive at?

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

• Puppy Island

• Sallas Mahone Island

Which group of immigrants arrived in the US and were processed at Ellis Island?

• Asian Immigrants

• Canadian Immigrants

• Puerto Rico

• European Immigrants