Immigration

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Ellis Island Immigrants

• Emigration is the act of moving from one country to another with the intention of not returning.
• The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to America, and it greeted the immigrants that arrived at Ellis Island.
• When the immigrants arrived at Ellis Island, they had to go through inspections where they were given a physical examination and asked a series of questions.
• Most of the immigrants to the United States from 1820 to 1920 were from European countries.

Lesson 2: Immigrants in American History

• The first permanent settlements in America were St. Augustine and Jamestown.
• Immigrants have been coming to America since the early 1600s and continue to arrive today.
• Some immigrants stayed on the East Coast, and others settled in the western regions of the United States.
• Tenements are run-down and often crowded apartment houses in a poor section of large cities.
• A formal examination is called an inspection.
• Deportation is when an undesired person is expelled from a country.
• A peddler sells goods from door to door or in the street.
• A group of people working for wages may be referred to as labor.
• Sweatshops are businesses employing workers at low wages and for long hours under poor conditions.
• The root word "migra" means to move from place to place or wander.

Lesson 3: Reasons for Immigration

• Some reasons the immigrants chose to leave their homelands included the following: freedom to worship, freedom to create, freedom from oppression, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
• Africans were forced to leave their countries and travel across the ocean in slave ships, where they were treated horribly; they were sold as slaves once they arrived.

Lesson 4: Immigrant Jobs

• Immigrants from a variety of backgrounds have made significant contributions to the American culture.

Lesson 5: Daily Lives of the Immigrants

• Tenement apartments often had many people living in a very small space.
• Sometimes businesses were set up in tenement houses.
• All immigrant children went to school together and progressed through the grade levels as they mastered the language.

Lesson 6: Other Ports and Recent Immigration

• Castle Garden was the immigration center in New York before Ellis Island opened.
• Most Asian immigrants between 1908 and 1924 arrived at Angel Island in San Francisco.
• Immigration policies and practices are still debated in politics today.

Final Project: Coming to America

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