Immigration

What law prohibited Chinese Workers from entering the U.S. for 10 years?

How long was the journey across the Atlantic?

Which of the following words means people who share a common culture or heritage?

Where were the West immigrants processed?

Push factors are reasons to leave a country permanently.

What is an incorrect perception based on a person's ethnic group and background?

Which of the following words means anti-immigrant?

Immigrants could be refused permission to enter the U.S. if they had what?

What is the movement of people into a country to which they are not native in order to settle there permanently?

The journey across the Pacific ocean lasted for a few weeks.

Which of the following words means to become part of a new larger culture by blending in?

More than 70% of immigrants came through what city nicknamed "The Golden Door"?

Immigrants often faced discrimination. Discrimination is the fair treatment of a person based on their race.

America was seen as a land of jobs and opportunities for a better life. These are pull factors.

Where were the East immigrants processed?

The Immigration Act of 1917 required that all immigrants be able to read and write in some language.

Which of the following words means to leave one's homeland to live elsewhere?

What were some ways that immigrants tried to re-create what they left behind?

What was one of the first sights that greeted immigrants as they sailed into New York and was a sign of hope?

Once in this country, an immigrant's greatest challenge was what?

Many people emigrate to the U.S. because of what?

Nativist believed that immigrants were causing wages to go up for Americans.

When did the Emergency Quota Act restrict the flow of immigrants?

Most immigrants could only afford to travel to the U.S. in what?

Pull factors are reasons to come to a country to live permanently.