A person who moves from one country to another country to live there is called what?

In 1804, Lewis and Clark set out to explore the land west of the Mississippi River. Which president sent them?

Settlers came to a new place in order to do what?

Immigrants often bring foods, languages and holidays from their old home into their new community.

Families from Italy opened bakeries in a town and baked bread the way they had at home. What did they bring to the town?

Newcomers move into a town and open restaurants serving dishes from their homeland. What happens to the food choices in that town?

Millions of immigrants from Europe arrived by ship and were checked at Ellis Island. Where is Ellis Island?

Every immigrant who came to the United States arrived through Ellis Island.

The Angel Island immigration station stood on which coast of the United States?

Ships full of newcomers sailed past the Statue of Liberty. What does she hold up in her raised hand?

The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor was a gift from the people of France.

Thousands of workers came from China to help build the western part of the first railroad across the country. What work did they do?

In 1849 people hurried to California from China, Chile and Europe. What were they hoping to find?

The gold seekers who poured into California in 1849 were nicknamed the forty-niners.

In the 1840s a disease ruined the potato crop in Ireland. Why did so many Irish families sail to America?

German families who settled in Pennsylvania brought which holiday custom with them?

Many families from Norway and Sweden moved to Minnesota in the 1800s. What work did most of them take up there?

San Francisco has the oldest Chinatown in North America.

Starting in 1885, thousands of workers came from Japan to Hawaii. Which crop did they work in?

Vietnamese families who settled in Westminster, California, filled a neighborhood with shops and restaurants. What is that neighborhood called?

Spanish settlers brought an animal to California that people then rode to herd cattle. Which animal was it?

In old California, the skilled Spanish and Mexican cattle workers were called what?

The word rodeo came into English from which language?

People who move to a new country never keep speaking the language they grew up with.

The Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1620 on a ship with which name?

Where did the Pilgrims build their settlement after their long ocean voyage?

Jamestown was the first lasting English settlement in North America. In which colony did the settlers build it?

Wampanoag people helped the newly arrived Pilgrims survive by teaching them to do what?

Explorers were people who traveled to lands new to them and then told others what they had seen.

Who traveled with Lewis and Clark and spoke Shoshone so the group could get horses?

Families from Scotland who settled in North Carolina played bagpipes and held games of strength each summer. What did they bring?

A family from Poland carried a wooden trunk on the ship, and a museum keeps that trunk today. The trunk is called what?

In the 1880s many Jewish families left eastern Europe after their villages were burned and attacked. Why did they come to America?

Newcomers always replace a community's older traditions with their own.

Many newcomer families moved to a town for factory jobs, and the town then built two more schools. What was the effect?

A main street had one grocery store in 1900 and many kinds of restaurants by 2000. What does this show?

Families from Mexico settled in a town, and now shopkeepers greet customers in Spanish and English. What did the newcomers bring?

A family from Japan opened a shop where they teach neighbors to fold paper cranes. What did they bring to the town?

Vietnamese families in a town hold a parade with dragon dancing every Lunar New Year. What did they bring to the town?

Spanish settlers in California built houses with thick adobe walls and red tile roofs. What did they bring to the region?