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4th Grade Ellis Island Scavenger Hunt
You can type your answers on this page or print it out and write them by hand. You will get two points
for each item and bonus points where noted. This gives you a maximum total of 50 points you can
earn. The questions are in no particular order.
Please go to, http://www.nps.gov/elis/historyculture/index.htm and search for the following things:
1) Where were first and second class passengers inspected prior to being allowed to enter
the United States? Why?
2) About how long did the inspection process last at Ellis Island?
3) Where was the majority of the inspection done at Ellis Island?
4) What two things enabled immigrant’s a speedy entrance into the US?
5) What type of passenger’s had to endure the inspection process at Ellis Island?
6) During what years did Ellis Island operate?
7) Where is Ellis Island?
8) About how many immigrants entered through Ellis Island?
9) How was Ellis Island used by the military prior to World War I?
10) Who was the first immigrant to be inspected at Ellis Island? Describe this person.
11) What special item did the first person to be processed at Ellis Island receive and who
handed it to them?
12) Name five other places where immigrants came into the US. (Name seven for 5 bonus
points.)
13) What year did the most people immigrate to the US and how many came in that year?
14) What happened on June 14, 1897 and how did it change the future of structures on Ellis
Island?
15) Where were immigrants in New York processed before the opening of Ellis Island?
***Bonus***
How large was the island originally (5 pts) and how did it grow (10 pts)?