Immigration (1)

Source: Encarta

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  1. Click on: Experiment, Ellis Island, What is Ellis Island?

  1. What years of immigration are dealt with here? _________________

  2. Begin with Pursuit of Happiness (in the upper left-hand corner) and pass the cursor over the images and listen. Summarize what you learn about Ellis Island and immigration.

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  3. Click on: Points of Origin

    4. Choose Russia, Italy and three other points of origin. For each country, write the number of immigrants from that country who passed through Ellis Island and their reasons for immigration.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  4. Click on: The Immigrant Experience

Listen to all the ‘Immigrant Experiences’ and describe each immigrant’s

attitude toward the experience, e.g. happy, disappointed, surprised because… .

  1. Leaving Home:

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  2. Ocean Passage:

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  3. First Sight of America:

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  4. Medical Inspection:

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  5. Tickets to All Point:

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  6. New Americans:

 

 

 

 

  1. Close the Interactivity.

Click on Find and Type: Italy.

In the outline at the left, click on: The Kingdom of Italy. Read until the beginning of Economic Measures (excluding World War I).

What characterized this period in Italian history?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. What may explain the large number of people who emigrated from Italy to
the USA in this period?