Chapter 5 Section 1 ( A New Wave of Immigration)
Across
- 1. to speak in favor of
- 3. Island The immigration station on the west coast where Asian immigrants, mostly Chinese gained admission to the U.S. at San Francisco Bay.
- 6. Societies aid organizations that offered immigrants help in cases of sickness, unemployment, or death
- 8. Jewish language
- 9. boring
- 11. Peter Giannini In 1904, this Italian immigrant started the Bank of Italy in San Francisco. This bank later grew and became the Bank of America.
- 14. A large open area beneath a ship's deck, often used to house traveling immigrants
- 15. Poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived
Down
- 2. Exclusion Act 1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States
- 3. Moore Schayer The first immigrant processed through Ellis Island
- 4. Island Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892
- 5. A shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions
- 7. Americans who feared that immigrants would take jobs and impose their Roman Catholic beliefs on society
- 10. Immigrants immigrants from northern Europe
- 12. Readers One of the first known textbooks
- 13. Immigrants Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe