Immigration Word Search
This Immigration word search tells the story of coming to America: the inspection halls on Ellis Island and Angel Island, the steamship crossing in steerage, the Statue of Liberty in the harbor, the passport, the green card and the oath that makes a new citizen.
Ellis Island opened in New York Harbor in 1892, and by the time it closed in 1954 about 12 million people had passed through it. Most were cleared in a few hours. Doctors watched new arrivals climb the stairs to the Great Hall and marked anyone who looked ill with chalk on the coat. Steerage passengers went through the island, while first and second class passengers were usually checked on board.
Angel Island in San Francisco Bay opened in 1910 and mostly held Chinese immigrants, who could be detained for weeks or months under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; some carved poems into the barrack walls. Emma Lazarus wrote the sonnet The New Colossus in 1883 to raise money for the statue's pedestal, and its lines about the tired, the poor and the huddled masses were placed inside it in 1903.
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Immigration has.
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In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
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- Accent
- Ancestry
- Angel Island
- Asylum
- Border
- Census
- Chinese
- Citizen
- Customs
- Ellis Island
- Emma Lazarus
- Famine
- Ferry
- Generation
- German
- Green Card
- Harbor
- Heritage
- Homeland
- Inspector
- Interpreter
- Irish
- Italian
- Manifest
- Melting Pot
- Mexican
- Neighborhood
- Newcomer
- Oath
- Passport
- Polish
- Quota
- Refugee
- Sponsor
- Statue of Liberty
- Steamship
- Steerage
- Trunk
- Visa
- Voyage