(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Sometimes people had a bad sickness and had to be sent back to where they came from
Sometimes people rode trains to get to America.
You may not recognize your family members after you come.
People sometimes needed to cross country borders to catch a train to come to America.
People brought suitcases full of their belongings.
It took 1-10 years for a family to reunite.
Often people brought baskets, cardboard boxes, tins, leather sacks, or any type of container.
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People who lived in the country had to go to a big city to get on a train to come to America.
Men and boys needed their hair, cut short.
Sometimes they looked for lice, which carried a deadly disease called typhus.
Some people wear layers and layers of clothing so they don't have to pack a suitcase, so they don't get cold.
Many brought food like smoked sausages and ham.
Maybe a father, older brother or sister would come first.
People who lived in the country had to go to a big city to get on a train to come to America.
They brought food and water.
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Sometimes people left at night to escape mobs beating and killing people.
Some people wore fancy clothes.
Sometimes people brought trunks of clothes and food.
U.S. ship companies had to pay to send back people with sicknesses and illness.
In these boxes have they had feather quilts, mattresses, pillows because the steamship had thin blankets.
Another family member would get a job and send the money to the other members back home.
