Waves of Immigration

What is a push factor?

• Job Shortages

• Good Education

• Religious Freedom

• Reunion with Family

What is a pull factor?

• Famine

• Cheap Land

• Persecution

• Civil War

__________ was the main immigration port into the United States for 60 years.

• Manhattan

• Philadelphia

• Ellis Island

• Boston

Which act opened up farm land?

• Potato Famine Act of 1841

• Immigrant Land Act of 1853

• Farming and Jobs Act of 1952

• Homestead Act of 1862

All immigrants between 1892 and 1954 arrived on the East Coast.

• True

• False

Which group was the first to be blocked from immigrating to the United States?

• Irish

• Dutch

• Germans

• Chinese

How much of New York City’s population was immigrants in 1900?

• one quarter

• one third

• one half

• three quarters

Where did many German immigrants settle?

• California

• Midwest

• New York

• Southwest

Many _________________ immigrants came into the United States through Angel Island.

• Asian

• German

• Italian

• Polish

What work did many immigrant women do?

• construction

• laundry

• manufacturing

• mining