Ellis Island Immigrant Tour
Click on the link above to explore Ellis Island from an immigrant's point of view. Answer the questions listed on the board (and below) in your notebook. Do NOT copy the questions!
Ellis Island Webquest Questions:
1. When did Ellis Island first open and how did people arrive there?
2. What was their first stop on Ellis Island?
3. Immigrants had to pass many tests in order to become citizens, what was the first test on the island and what was its purpose?
4. Do you think the medical exams were fair? What would you do if your parents were sick and had to go back to your homeland but you were heathy and could enter the US?
5. How did treatment of immigrants improve over the years on Ellis Island?
6. What was a literacy test? How could it have discriminated against some immigrants?
7. Why would immigrants be required to have at least $20.00?
8. After people passed through Ellis Island, where could they have gone? What do you think their new lives would be like?
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