Block:______ Name:_________________________ Immigration Study Guide kevin reyes 1. ____ellis____ Island is in New York City, next to the Statue of Liberty. It is where immigrants were processed before they could enter the US. 2. Immigrants came from many countries. List 3 countries below where many people emigrated from. Country 1. Russia 2. china 3. Italy 3. Why did these immigrants move to the US? Provide at least three reasons. poverty, famine, land shortages, and religious and political persecution. 4. __angel__ Island in San Francisco is another port of entry to the US where immigrants came from. 5. They mostly came from _________china__. These immigrants often worked on the __________land___. 6. Pick a political cartoon from the stations and write a 3 sentence analysis of it. a. Describe what cartoon you picked It Is a man sitting on a barrel getting carried by immigrants 7. What other jobs did immigrants get when they came to the US? Then write why a natural-born US citizen may not have wanted these jobs. Jobs Why they are undesirable for US citizens 1. Because they where dangerous jobs police, firefighters, and soldiers. 2. mining, farming, and factory work. It was dirty job 3. building railroads It was a low paying job 8. Racism caused a lot of restrictions on _____Chinese_________ immigrants. At ___angel____ Island more immigrants were detained than in New York. 9. The US also passed the _____ Chinese Exclusion ________ Act which: a. Prohibited Chinese immigration into the US b. Prevented Chinese immigrants from becoming _us citizens____________ c. Caused more Chinese men to be in the US than __white men__________ d. Immigrants were detained at Angel Island for weeks, or even for ______months___ e. In some places, Asian people weren’t allowed to testify in court against any white person. f. Increased anti-Asian violence including riots and attacks against Chinese communities to expel them from areas.
