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1

What is Ellis Island today?

2

What can you see in this sequence?

Select one or more answers

3

How long was Ellis Island used as an immigration station?

4

What were these people trying to escape from? Give 4 examples.

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5

When immigrants arrived, did they have a good idea of the New World?

6

What did immigrants imagine was so attractive about America?

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7

"For the first time, they were facing officers in uniforms that were trying to ____ them instead of _____ them."

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8

Prior to 1920 the only thing you needed to enter the United States was...

9

What kind of questions were immigrants asked during the interview?

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10

What did they do with all these immigration documents?

11

What are the advantages of the computer database compared with old microfilms?

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12

What percentage of the US population can trace their ancestors back to Ellis Island?

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13

When they put the database online, people would get up in the middle of the night to get on.

14

What is the American Family Migration History Center?

15

What has this woman come to Ellis Island for?

16

Why do people get so emotional when they read the records?

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17

Why was the little girl and her parents told they were going to be deported back to Germany?

18

Why wasn't she and her family eventually sent back to Germany?

19

Why was it so important for this German family to pass?

20

What country did Karen Martinez's ancestors come from?

Explanation

A steamship is a ship powered by steam. The Great hall is the place where all immigrants arrived after they got off the ship. The manifest is an official document listing the names of all passengers.

Ellis island was used as an immigration station from 1892 until 1954, so for 62 years.

All you needed to do was buy a steamship ticket and your name was automatically reported to the passenger list, which in turn was given to immigration inspectors at Ellis Island.

Yes, they had to answer 39 questions, some of which very personal.

 
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