Fifth Grade

Immigration Research Resources

Sources to use to answer your questions

US Immigration Facts- Facts and history of the migration of many countries to the United States (scroll down to find your country/region)

Library of Congress- Click pictures on the side for your country or region- to continue reading about your country/region click the 'Next' button found in pink at the bottom of the page- Lots of good reliable information

Push and Pull Factors- a great list of examples and links to each countries factors

Japanese Americans- personal accounts and links to additional resources

Primary Sources

Library of Congress- Challenges for New Americans

National Park Service- Ellis Island

Digital Public Libary of America- a set of records from 1880-1930

Harvard Open Collection- a large selection of links to various immigration subjects (history, educational, African-American Migration Experience)

PBS Destination America- personal stories, links to safe resources on the web , and quizzes

Liberty Ellis Island Foundation- Click the Ellis Island tab- here you can find timelines, history, search passengers, ships, oral histories, and famous passengers

GG Archives- links to primary sources/pictures stories of children lives

First Hand Accounts

First Hand Account- a young Jewish immigrant from Poland account first hand account

YouTube- From Ancestry. com 3 oral histories accounts coming through Ellis Island