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15 Cards in this Set
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emigrants |
people who move away from their own country to live in another place |
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immigrants |
people who go into a new country |
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Native Americans |
lived in America longer than any other group of people |
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Spanish |
built a fort at St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565 |
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England |
controlled the thirteen colonies before 1776 |
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Statue of Liberty |
also known as the "Mother of Exiles" |
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Declaration of Independence |
states that "all men are created equal" |
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potato blight |
caused a great flood of immigration into America around 1850 |
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pogroms |
persecutions of Russian Jews that caused them to leave their homeland |
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American Civil War |
caused immigration to America to slow almost to a stop between 1860 and 1865 |
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railroad |
made it possible for Russian and Italian emigrants to get to ships bound for America |
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steerage |
lowest deck of a ship |
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Chinese immigrants |
settled mostly on the West Coast |
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi |
sculpted the Statue of Liberty |
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New York |
the American port where most immigrants arrived |
