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