Immigration Review

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Why did immigrants choose to leave their homelands and come to America?

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-religious persecution

• -lack of jobs

• -overcrowding

• -government oppression

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What were the conditions like for immigrants traveling to America in steerage?

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Seasickness, smallpox/measles, little privacy, no windows, yucky food, overcrowded

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Where is Ellis Island located?

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New York Harbor

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What was the purpose of the Staircase of Separation at Ellis Island?

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To determine if immigrants would be detained or deported

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Who had an easier time blending with the American culture, 'Old' immigrants or 'New' immigrants?

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'Old' immigrants

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What is nativism?

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The feeling of opposing immigration

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Effects of the growing immigrant population in America?

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Increased crime rates, sanitation problems, overcrowding in tenements

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What were the immigration laws that limited immigration to America called?

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Chinese Exclusion Act

Literacy Skill Test

Immigration Act of 1882

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Lice carried this disease...

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Typhus

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An infection in the eye that could cause blindness and sometimes death.

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Trachoma