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.
- What year did Ellis Island open?
- What percentage of American’s can trace their roots to Ellis Island?
- Between 1900-1914 how many people passed through Ellis Island every day?
- What was built on Ellis Island during the time of the Revolutionary War?
- What was Ellis Island used for during the Civil War?
- What was the Naturalization Act?
- What did so many immigrants come from Ireland in the 1840’s?
- Why did German immigrants come to America?
- Who did the U.S. restrict from entering the country beginning in 1875?
- How many immigrants passed through Ellis Island the very first day it opened?
- How many immigrants came through Ellis Island the first year it was opened?
- What happened on Ellis Island on June 15, 1897?
- What did President Roosevelt do in 1902 to ensure there would be no more problems on Ellis Island?
- Who was denied admittance into Ellis Island as of 1903?
- What Ellis Island record was set on April 17,1907?
- Why did immigration slow down dramatically in 1914?
- What literacy test was adopted in 1917? What do you think about this?
- What was the Quota Act of 1921? Do you think the Quota Act was necessary? Why or why not?
- What happened in the 1930’s that totally slows down immigration?
- What happened to Ellis Island in November of 1954?
- What is the Hart-Cellar Act? And how does it relate to the Quota Act?
- Describe the Internal Security Act of 1950.
- What is Proclamation 3656?
- How many vistors have been to Ellis Island since 1990? What do you think about this?
- 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?