Use the link below to answer the questions. Please write your answers on a separate sheet of binder paper. When you finish - you can then meet with your group and finish the PowerPoint project.

1. What year did Ellis Island open?
2. What percentage of American’s can trace their roots to Ellis Island?
3. Between 1900-1914 how many people passed through Ellis Island every day?
4. What was built on Ellis Island during the time of the Revolutionary War?
5. What was Ellis Island used for during the Civil War?
6. What was the Naturalization Act?
7. What did so many immigrants come from Ireland in the 1840’s?
8. Why did German immigrants come to America?
9. Who did the U.S. restrict from entering the country beginning in 1875?
10. How many immigrants passed through Ellis Island the very first day it opened?
11. How many immigrants came through Ellis Island the first year it was opened?
12. What happened on Ellis Island on June 15, 1897?
13. What did President Roosevelt do in 1902 to ensure there would be no more problems on Ellis Island?
14. Who was denied admittance into Ellis Island as of 1903?
15. What Ellis Island record was set on April 17,1907?
16. Why did immigration slow down dramatically in 1914?
17. What literacy test was adopted in 1917? What do you think about this? 
18. What was the Quota Act of 1921? Do you think the Quota Act was necessary? Why or why not?
19. What happened in the 1930’s that totally slows down immigration?
20. What happened to Ellis Island in November of 1954?
21. What is the Hart-Cellar Act? And how does it relate to the Quota Act?
22. Describe the Internal Security Act of 1950.       
23. What is Proclamation 3656?
24. How many vistors have been to Ellis Island since 1990? What do you think about this?
25. Debate continues over how America should confront the effects of soaring immigration rates. What to you think? Should the U.S. tighten up immigration laws? Why or why not?