Immigration
Unit Review Sheet
These facts and definitions should be mastered throughout this unit. This page can be used for periodic review and study as you are finishing the unit and in the future.
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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