Immigration History of the U.S. (Britannica for Kids)

Read the article at https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/immigration/399508 to answer questions.

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Between 1880 and 1910, about ______________ European immigrants entered the United States.

True or False: All immigration to the United States comes from Mexico.

• true

• false

• partially true

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Match the vocabulary words with the definitions.

• emigrants

• People forced to leave their country because of dangerous conditions or because the government mistreated them

• refugees

• People who move to a new country permanently

• migrant workers

• What their old country calls people who leave permanently

• immigrants

• People who move to another place to work

Immigration is one type of _________ ______________ or movement.

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Things that make people move AWAY (push)

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(b) Things that make people move TO (pull)

• harsh governments

• natural disasters

• wars

• opportunities for their children

• good paying jobs

• better life

In modern times, the largest waves of immigration were from ___________ to the Americas in the 1800s.

• Africa

• Europe

• Asia

• Australia

Among the Europeans moving to the Americas were...

(select more than one answer)

• Chinese

• Germans

• Irish

• Italians

• Greeks

Among the Asians who migrated to the Americas in the 1800s were from the following countries:

(select more than one answer)

• Japan

• Philippines

• Korea

• Norway

• China

Match the dates with the immigration events

• 1882

• the largest groups of immigrants came from Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America especially Mexico.

• by the late 1900s

• limits remained in place until

• 1965

• the government began limiting the number of immigrants from specific countries.

• early 1900s

• the U.S. government halted immigration from China.

• 1600s

• the first Europeans who moved onto Native American lands