G6 Ch4 Task

1 What is the Statue of Liberty? Where is it located?

2 Which country gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States?

3 What was the purpose of the gift?

4 Where does the Statue of Liberty stand?

5 Why do you think Emma Lazarus called her poem,

“The New Colossus”?

6 What happened at Ellis Island?

7 Why was Ellis Island known as the “Island of Tears”?

8 How do you think an immigrant whose last name was

changed felt about it?

9 What is nativism?

10 In the 1850s, which immigrants did American nativists target?