Angel Island
Old Immigration job opportunities
New Immigration
Immigration Act of 1917
runners
Ellis Island
Old Immigration
One reason why Jews immigrated to the United States.
Reason for immigration
assimilation
Great Hall, Ellis Island
Nativism
New Immigration job opportunities
Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907
American Protection Society and Immigration Restriction Associate
the ability to adapt and become part of another culture
Building roads, laying railroad track, or building canals
poverty, starvation
People who were against immigration in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Northern and western European immigrants (England, Ireland, Germany, Scandinavia)
Anti-immigrant hate groups that were established in the 1890s
Japan agreed to limit emigration to professional, skilled workers and the U.S. promised to desegregate San Francisco schools.
sweatshops, factories, and mines
Southern and easter European immigrants (Italy, Greece, Russia and easter European Jews)
Religious persecution
Required immigrants to pass a literacy test in their native language,
people who cheated immigrants by overcharging them to carry their luggage or find them food and lodging
