The Immigration Experience

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The Immigration Experience
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To Stay Or Not To StayThat is the question
Task 1
For most deciding to leave home was the hardest
part. Click the links below and the button to
find the answers to your first task
How would you feel?

• Immigration
• From One Life to Another
• Reasons for Immigration

Next Step
Click the button
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Immigration Identity
Task 2

• Follow the link below to choose your identity.
  Scroll down until you see the flags. Choose one
  to take on for the Melting Pot Cafe!!!
• Choose a culture!!!

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Pack your bags!
Task 3

• You are starting over for a new life in America
• Who do you take with you, who do you leave
  behind?
• What will you take? You can only take a few
  things.
• Take five minutes and to fill out the packing
  list in your passport!

Click here when finished?
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Did You Know
Task 4
Click each arrow

• Getting to the port could be a major journey!
• People traveled by train, wagon, donkey, or on
  foot!
• People would some times wait days, Weeks, or even
  MONTHS at the port waiting for paperwork to go
  through!
• Port cities boasted emigrant hotels they would
  stay in while waiting!

Next Page
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Will YOU pass the test?
Task 5
After the 1893 immigration law went into effect,
each passenger had to answer a series of 29
questions before boarding the ship.
Click to begin the test!
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The Basics
Task 6
On page ______ of your passport, be creative and
come up with the answers to the following
questions based on the immigrant you picked from
Day One.

• Name
• Age
• Sex
• Married?

• Occupation
• Race

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Can you read and write?

• Click yes or no

YES!
NO!
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Are you physically ill?

• Click yes or no

YES!
NO!
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Click Me
DEPORTED!!!!
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Click Me
DEPORTED!!!!
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Are you mentally ill?

• Click yes or no

YES!
NO!
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Click Me
DEPORTED!!!!
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Do you have at least 30?

• Click yes or no

YES!
NO!
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Click Me
DEPORTED!!!!
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Congratulations!
All Aboard!!!
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Out and about on a Boat

• There is a huge risk when stepping foot on board.
  Many do not live to step foot in the New World
• The next page you will see the difference between
  first class and steerage.

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Will you travel in style?
Task 7
Click both buttons and answer the corresponding
questions
Steerage
First Class
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Finally The End in Sight
Ellis Island
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Fear Will you be accepted or rejected in this
new home?
A polish man exclaimed, The bigness of Mrs.
Liberty overcame us. No one spoke a word for she
was like a goddess and we know she represented
the big powerful country which was to be out
future home.
I thought she was one of the Seven Wonders of
the world, exclaimed a German traveler.
Click here to find out!
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Task 8
Will you make it through...
Ellis Island??
Click here after you complete the website
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Welcome Wagon
Task 9

• Click on the information below to find out why
  and if immigrants were welcomed
• Welcome???