| A | B |
|---|
| immigrant | someone who comes to live in a country from somewhere else in the world |
| opportunity | is the chance to find a job, get an education, or have a better way of life |
| tradition | is a custom, or way of doing something, that is passed on by families to their children |
| English | the first immigrants to come in the 1600's |
| Enslaved Africans | to work on plantations in the 1700's |
| Europeans | came in the 1800's to find better opportunities |
| Ellis Island NYC | many immigrants arrived here between 1892-1924. They needed to be examined by doctors and interviewed by officials |
| Asia, Mexico, and Central America | today the largest groups are from here |
| Albert Einstein | A professor from Germany, won the Nobel Prize, made important contributions in Math & Science |
| I.M. Pei | Came from China, designed beautiful buildings in the U.S. |
| Elijah McCoy | Came from Scotland, inventions that made train and machine engines better. |
| famine | is a time of hunger when there is little food |
| voyage | is an ocean journey |
| Irish immigrants | came to escape hunger from the potato famine in the 1840's. A disease killed all the potato crops. |
| postage stamp | was created by United States to honor the Irish Immigrants |
| language | is the words or signs people use to communicate |
| manufacture | means to make something with machines |
| Los Angeles | is home to a growing number of immigrants from Asia. |
| Chicago | has a growing number of African Americans. It also has many other Europeans from Poland, Germany, Italy, and Ireland. |
| Art, Music, Language, Literature,and Religion | People express their culture through |
| Music | Sounds people make with instruments or voices |
| festival | is a joyful gathering or feast used to celebrate something |
| churches, synagogues, and masjids | People worship (pray) in places like this |
| St. Patrick's Day | Irish Americans celebrate this |
| Cinco de Mayo | Mexican Americans celebrate this |
| Kwanzaa | African Americans celebrate this |
| New Year | People stay up until midnight to celebrate this |
