PRIMARY SOURCES&

IMMIGRATIONQUIZ REVIEW

•Define a primary source.

• Source of information made during the actual time period it occured

•Give examples of primary sources

•Video footage, interviews, photographs, journals, diaries, etc made at the time they occurred

•Why are primary sources not always 100% accurate?

•People may have exaggerated the truth or be biased

•What continent did immigrants in the past MOSTLY come from?

•Europe

•Where do majority of immigrants today come from?

•Mexico and Central/South America

•Define push factor

•Reason a person LEAVES their home country

•Give examples of push factors

•Famine/Starvation/poverty

•War/Violence

•No jobs or land

•Few freedoms or rights

•Disease

•Define pull factor

•Reason a person is drawn to or chooses a new country

•What are some examples of pull factors?

•Many rights and freedoms (democracy)

•Fewer taxes

•More jobs

•Free, good schools

•Resources

•Safety

•Describe discrimination

•Treating people differently because of their race, religion, or nationality

•Describe the voyage to America for immigrants.

•On large ships

•Packed in like animals, really crowded

•Little food

•Seasickness and disease

•Not enough beds

•Describe how immigrants may have felt entering Ellis Island.

•Terrified: They had to pass a health/medical test before entering America

•Excited/Overjoyed: They have reached America! They may be reunited with family and have new opportunities.

•What was life like for immigrants in the cities of America?

•Dirty, dark, cramped apartments (tenements)

•Crowded living conditions

•Did dirty and difficult jobs

•Why are immigrants coming to the United States today?

•Opportunities and school for their children

•Better life

•Jobs

•Safety/Freedom/Rights

•What is a mixed family?

•Family that has both legal citizens and illegal immigrants

•Define deport

•When a person is sent back to their home country

•Why do employers use illegal immigrants?

•They will do jobs Americans do not want to do.

•They will work for less money.

•They will work long hours.

•List three problems immigrants are sometimes blamed for in America today.

•Take jobs from Americans

•May commit crimes

•Drain social services (free or reduced cost medical care, schools, housing)