Chinese & Japanese Immigration and Review

Chinese & Japanese Immigration and Review

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How were Asians regarded by many white Americans?

• with suspicion and hostility
• with respect and admiration
• as productive farmers
• as good neighbors

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Why did many immigrants support city political machines?

• Political machines were free of corruption
• political machines provides them with jobs
• political machines put powerful "bosses" out of business
• political machines fought against crime in the slums

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Unofficial organization designed to keep a particular party or group in power.

• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Munn vs. Illinois
• Political Machine
• Ghetto

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Section of cities in which certain ethnic and racial groups live.

• Steerage
• Ghetto
• Suburb
• Quarantine

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Large open area beneath a ship's deck in which most immigrants traveled.

• Steerage
• Ghetto
• Quarantine
• Suburb

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When Japan raised an angry protest at the segregation in schools of its emigrants, President Theodore Roosevelt worked out a deal called...

• National Agreement Act
• Japanese Agreement act
• Gentleman's Agreement 
• Civil Rights Act

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What is a tenement?

• A new form of transportation
• Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings
• The end of immigration
• A revolutionary war in Africa

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How was Angel Island different from Ellis Island?

• Main station for European immigrants
• Main station for Chinese immigrants
• Located on the EAST coast
• People were only there a few hours

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What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Did NOT want religious freedom
• Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)
• Wanted LESS diversity
• Wanted to live more simply

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Immigration means

• when people enter a country

• when people exit a country

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Emigration means

• when people enter a country

• when people exit a country

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Economic opportunities, religious freedom, and political and social equality are all examples of...

• Push Factors
• Pull Factors
• Falling Factors
• Jump Factors

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War, poverty, and discrimination are all examples of.......

• Pull Factors
• Push Factors
• Jump Factors
• Falling Factors

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What was the Gentleman's Agreement with Japan?

• an agreement in which the USA promised not to send immigrants to Japan

• an agreement in which Japan agreed to take Chinese immigrants

• an agreement to expand Japanese immigration to the USA

• an agreement designed to reduce the number of Japanese immigrants to the USA

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A movement concerned with helping the poor -- according to biblical principles

• Social Gospel
• Gospel of Wealth
• Social Darwinism

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The most notorious of the political machines was --------------------in New York City.

• Hull House
• Pendergast Hall
• Daly Machine
• Tammany Hall

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Why are political machines an example of corruption in the Gilded Age?

• They made sure unions could not protect workers from management

• They forced immigrants into the US from Latin America

• They took control of city governments and stole millions of dollars from the cities

• They prevented immigrants from being Americanized

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How did political machines get the support of immigrants?

• they promised to stop illegal immigration from Latin America

• They wasted money on military spending

• They helped them find homes and jobs in exchange for votes

• They developed a system to make becoming a citizen easier

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What was the main reason for the rise of political machines?

• They bribed police officers to ignore crimes

• Nativists rigged elections in their favor

• Forced unions to keep factories open to low skilled workers

• Cities were overcrowded and couldn't get basic services needed for immigrants

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Which is the best example of a political machine?

• A group of immigrants gather together and demand rights, and better pay
• The government breaks apart big businesess
• A political organization that uses corruption to buy and cheat votes
• A politician asks for donations for his campaign 

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This term describes people with prejudices about immigrants based on ethnicity, religion, political and social beliefs

• Racist
• Nativist
• Prejudists
• Americanist

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Ellis and Angel Island were both

• locations of settlement houses

• immigration processing centers

• centers of shipping and industry

• amusement parks

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Ellis Island

• in San Francois allowed Chinese immigrants into the United States

• in New York was the first European immigrant process center for immigration

• in El Paso allowed Mexican immigrants to find jobs in construction, mills, and mines

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The Chinese Exclusion Act

• Banned Chinese people from immigrating to the U.S. for 10 years

• Was the first time America banned a single group from America

• Made Chinese people keep identification on them

• All of the above

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Anti-immigrant feeling resulted in

• benevolent societies

• the Chinese Exclusion Act

• tenements

• the Tenement House Act

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The main goal of Hull House was to

• provide jobs for wealthy women

• pass the Tenement House Act of 1901

• help poor immigrants

• oppose the Chinese Exclusion Act