The population of the United States is made up of people of just about every race, culture and national origin in the world. Everyone who lives here either came from somewhere else or is a descendant of immigrants.
Immigrants are people who have moved from one country to another.
In this scavenger hunt, you will learn about immigration and immigrants to the United States. Immigrants continued to come to the U.S. in the years after 1890. Click here to find out why some groups of immigrants came to the U.S. between 1890 and 1924. Between 1892 and 1924 about 16 million immigrants passed through the processing center at Ellis Island. Some of the immigrants that came through Ellis Island became famous.