Ellis Island

Interactive Tour

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Ellis Island Interactive Tour

Take the Ellis Island interactive tour: www.teacher.scholastic.com/ACTIVITIES/IMMIGRATION/tour/stop1.htm

Stop 1 – The Passage

1. On average, how many people filled a ship at one time? ____________________________

Stop 2 – The Arrival

2. What was the name of the first immigrant to arrive on Ellis Island in 1892? ______________________________

Stop 3 – Baggage Room

3. Immigrants could only bring what they could _________________ with them, often in small bundles. 4. There was a concession stand in the Baggage Room that sold _______________ and ___________________.

Stop 4 – The Stairs to the Registry Room

5. What was the highest number of people to enter Ellis Island in a single day? _____________________

Stop 5 – Registry Room

6. To test for trachoma, doctors used a _____________________ to lift a person’s eyelid.

7. Women were not allowed to enter America alone until after _______________. Officials believed that they could not provide for themselves.

Stop 6 – The Medical Exam

8. The first medical test was the “_________________________________________.” 9. About how many people were sent back to their countries for medical reasons? __________________________

Stop 7 – The Legal Inspection

10. Immigrants were asked ___________________ questions.

Stop 8 – Detainees

11. Ellis Island was known by two different names: _____________________ and ___________________________. 12. ______________ babies were born on Ellis Island and ____________________immigrants died.

Stop 9 – The Stairs of Separation

13. In the money exchange, immigrants exchanged money of their homeland to _________________________. Stop 10 – Journey’s End

14. The exit was referred to as the __________________________________________________.

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