review questions subject: immigration and citizenship

Review Questions

Subject: Immigration and Citizenship

How to Play

Split class up into two groups. Have groups take turns answering the

questions. Each question is worth 1 point.

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1. What is an immigrant?

a person who leaves their country and moves to another country

2. Why would immigrants want to leave their country?

better jobs food freedom freedom of religion

3. Why did immigrants call the U.S. the land of opportunity?

They believed that they could own land and get good jobs here.

4. How did most immigrants come to the united states?

Immigrants came on boats.

5. Were most immigrants rich or poor?

Most immigrants who came were poor.

6. Describe how life was on an immigrant boat coming to the U.S.

Life was:– cramped living areas.– no privacy– not enough food– seasickness– boredom

7. What was the first thing Immigrants saw when coming to the U.S.?

The Statue of Liberty.

8. What does the Statue of Liberty Represent?

Freedom and an opportunity for a better life It meant that they had arrived in America and

they could begin their new life.

9. What is Ellis Island?

A place where our government checked to see if people coming were healthy and had permission to come.

10. What does “e pluribus unum” mean?

out of many, one

11. What does it mean to be a citizen?

A person who is a member of our country

12. What is a good citizen?

A person who:– helps their country– helps others– obeys the laws

13. Why did so many immigrants settle in large cities?

They wanted to live where other people from their country lived so they could get more help.

14. What do immigrants need to do to become a U.S. citizen?

live in the U.S. for at least five years obey the laws pay taxes pass the citizenship test pledge to be loyal to the U.S.

15. What does immigration mean?

The movement of people from their own country to a different country

16. How have immigrants contributed to the U.S.?

customs food holidays language songs

17. What is a motto?

A short saying that explains the beliefs of a group of people

18. Immigrants who could not afford to pay for a cabin on the first or second deck of the ship stayed in ?

In steerage a large open area beneath the ship's deck.

19. What is naturalization?

Becoming a citizen of another country, even though a person was not born in that country .

20. As a citizen of the United States you have certain rights and responsibilities. What are they?

All adult Americans citizens have the right to vote Freedom to express yourself. Freedom to worship as you wish. Right to run for elected office. Freedom to pursue “life, liberty, and the pursuit

of happiness.”