Immigration And Immigrants

1. When immigrants moved into a ghetto what are some privileges (good things) that they now get to enjoy in America? (CHOOSE 3)

Going to school to get an education

Robbing from the rich and giving to the poor

Voting for their government leaders

Planning on how to sneak other immigrants into America

Starting their own business

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2. What are 4 reasons why immigrants left their home country?

To get a job and make money

To start a better life

To get away from their family

To get away from war

To steal from the rich

To practice their religion freely

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3. The 'Great American Melting Pot' is the phrase (saying) that Americans used that showed all of the different countries coming together to live in one place, America.

True

False

4. Native Born Americans (those already living in the United States) welcomed with open arms the immigrants and wanted them to come to America.

True

False

5. Many immigrants were persecuted in their home countries and decided to leave for America. What does the word PERSECUTED mean?

Given a disease

Robbed from

Beaten up

Treated badly

6. Many immigrants left the country of ___________ because of a great famine when their main source of food, __________ got a disease and many people starved to death.

China tomatoes

France cows

Ireland potatoes

Sweden pigs

7. Some immigrants were NOT allowed into the country of America for 2 main reasons. What are those 2 REASONS.

They had bad personal hygenie

They had very bad manners

They were criminals

They would not go to try and find a job

They had a very bad disease and could not be cured

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8. What 2 islands did immigrants have to pass through in order to be allowed into the United States?

Oaks Island

Angel Island

Fairy Island

Ellis Island

Atlantic Island

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9. A _________________ is where people from the same _________________ would live together and work together in a neighborhood in America.

City state cities

Ghetto countries

10. What are 4 countries that immigrants traveled from in order to get to the new world?

China

Korea

Siberia

Ireland

England

Pakistan

Germany

Iraqi

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11. People from the countries of _________________ and ____________ came to America to help build the Transcontinental Railroad.

Ireland

Sweden

Italy

China

Korea

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12. Many immigrants crossed the Pacific Ocean in order to make it to the New World.

True

False

They crossed the Atlantic ocean.

Explanation

They crossed the Atlantic ocean.

13. These were 2 men who were very successful immigrants from Scotland who came to America, they were _________________ who invented steel and ________________ who invented the telephone and phongraph.

Thomas Edison

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Alexander Graham Bell

James Monroe

Andrew Carnegie

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