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WorksheetsEarly Immigration
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
At which Immigration Station were you processed in less than a day?
Bradley Island
Ellis Island
Angel Island
SS Hemenway
What was a reason that people immigrated to the US?
freedom of religion
job opportunities
to escape hunger and poverty
all of the above
What is an immigrant?
someone who was born in America
someone who travels
someone who arrives or comes to live in a new country in which he or she was not born
someone who leaves America to go on vacation
In 1892, _______openend its doors as the EAST COAST immigration processing center.
Angel Island
The Empire State Building
Boston, Massachusetts
Ellis Island
Angel Island was an immigrant processing center in the New York Harbor.
True
False
Immigration no longer exists today.
True
False
Immigrants usually settled:
in communities and neighborhoods with people from their home country
with American families until they got jobs
in Canada
Immigrants saw America as a land of opportunity. Which wonderful thing below did they expect to find once they got there?
streets paved with gold
high paying jobs
lots of cheap open land
all of the above
Immigrant kids often had to _____
work dangerous jobs
take care of their siblings
work 7 days a week for long hours
all of the above
What were tenements?
books that the Paper Sons and daughters studied
buildings that housed immigrants
factories that immigrants worked in
Which of the choices below is a 'pull factor'?
poor education
to be able to earn land
war
lack of food
Which is NOT true of Angel Island?
If you crossed the Pacific Ocean, you arrived at this stations.
The island was used during the Spanish-American war.
It was known as the "Island of Hope"
You stayed here for weeks to months before you were able to leave.
The trip over to America was often filled with difficulties. What was one the immigrants faced?
slept in steerage in crowded spaces
often had to eat old moldy cheese and stale biscuits
suffered sea sickness
all of the above
What was the symbol of freedom that greeted the immigrants as they approached Ellis Island?
The Statue of Liberty
The Empire State Building
The Ellis Island Building
The flag of the United States of America
What is an emigrant?
people who come to a country to have a new life.
workers on the ships that came to America
people who leave their country to live in a new place
