Immigration

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Give examples of immigrant "push" factors.

Back

War or religious persecution

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Where did European immigrants enter when they came to America? Options: Ellis Island, Rhode Island, Alcatraz, Angel Island

Back

Ellis Island

Front

Where did Asian immigrants arrive when they came to America? Options: Angel Island, Rhode Island, Ellis Island, Fools Island

Back

Angel Island

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Immigration push factors are…

Back

reasons people leave their homelands

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Immigration pull factors are…

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reasons people come to a new place

Front

What major event caused millions of Irish immigrants to come to the United States?

Back

The Irish Potato Famine

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Why were so few Chinese immigrants allowed to come to the United States?

Back

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Front

Chinese immigrants were mainly employed by companies in which industry? (Options: auto building, skyscraper building, postage delivery, railroad building)

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railroad building

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Immigrants came to America to escape: religious persecution, famine, poor economies.

Back

all of the above

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Most immigrants traveled: first class, second class, steerage, fourth class

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steerage